Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Bainbridge wrote: There are already loads of semi-official overlays. Besides the stuff actually hosted by gentoo (random example http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/bzr/overlay/) there are official groups (again, not picking on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and *time-consuming* task. So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should support him officially?. The point is that there are lots of users who are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 09 June 2006 12:12, Chris Bainbridge wrote: This larger group of users are the ones that would benefit from an overlay. And this larger group of people is exactly the same one, that doesn't know to help itself, if necessary and will suffer the most, when something goes wrong. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Bainbridge wrote: There are already loads of semi-official overlays. Besides the stuff actually hosted by gentoo (random example http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/bzr/overlay/) there are official groups

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and *time-consuming* task. So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should support him officially?. The point is that there are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 02:42 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, I have founded a new Gentoo Project for the Gentoo User Overlay. The intention is to give contributors a single place to put their ebuilds - a place where they can be downloaded, updated and be moved to portage more easily

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Thomas Cort
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:20:18 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep the games bugs in bugzilla. Making this change is a direct change in games team policy without any prior notice to the games team and without our permission. No one needs permission to put ebuilds from

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:32 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:20:18 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep the games bugs in bugzilla. Making this change is a direct change in games team policy without any prior notice to the games team and without our

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Thursday 08 June 2006 15:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Having to troll through some overlay only increases our work load. +1 for chris -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE pgpciKqnLh3FT.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Having to troll through some overlay only increases our work load. That and it would become an an official Gentoo BMG-style repo. Please, let us not officially encourage the ricers. Some of us work very hard to discourage this type of user behavior. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:32:13AM -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:20:18 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep the games bugs in bugzilla. Making this change is a direct change in games team policy without any prior notice to the games team and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Thursday 08 June 2006 02:42, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the bugzilla every time. Can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Alec Warner
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:32:13AM -0400, Thomas Cort wrote: On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:20:18 -0400 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep the games bugs in bugzilla. Making this change is a direct change in games team policy without any prior notice to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread foser
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:12 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: It is my understanding the the Sunrise overlay is not open to anyone to commit, so it is not a contrib/ The sunrise project is the owner of the overlay and they are responsible for it's contents. The people commiting are responsible

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:12 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: It is my understanding the the Sunrise overlay is not open to anyone to commit, so it is not a contrib/ The sunrise project is the owner of the overlay and they are responsible for it's contents. The people commiting are responsible

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:13:45AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: That and it would become an an official Gentoo BMG-style repo. Please, let us not officially encourage the ricers. Some of us work very hard to discourage this type of user behavior. I wholeheartedly agree with Stephen on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:45 +0200, foser wrote: Instead of tackling the real problem -the lack of maintainers to deal with all requests- 'sunrise' is trying to create a backdoor for unreliable maintained stuff to enter the tree. Don't forget the free reign it gives to the sunrise development

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Josh Saddler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Thursday 08 June 2006 02:42, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to commit their

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 08/06/06, foser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the problem with maintainer-wanted ebuilds is that they are crappy, but that there is no dev willing to maintain them and ensure their quality over time. 'sunrise' (who came up with that name ? cheap asian poetry attempt) doesn't change

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Lance Albertson
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: Personally, I dislike the idea of having officially supported (read: hosted on *.gentoo.org infrastructure) overlays for unmaintained ebuilds for which nobody did any real quality assurance. I fear this will drag Gentoo back into the old-ages of having a reputation

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Grant Goodyear
Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 07:42:03PM CDT] Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the bugzilla every time. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 08/06/06, Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do very much object to using any gentoo.org infrastructure or subdomains to do so. If someone is going to tackle that, it should be done outside of Gentoo proper. We don't need to be stuck maintaining and supporting a semiofficial overlay.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Patrick McLean
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 08/06/06, Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do very much object to using any gentoo.org infrastructure or subdomains to do so. If someone is going to tackle that, it should be done outside of Gentoo proper. We don't need to be stuck maintaining and supporting a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Alec Warner
Grant Goodyear wrote: Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 07:42:03PM CDT] Initially jokey and myself will be working on this. The current focus is to migrate ebuilds from bugzilla into the overlay and to get contributors to commit their changes to the overlay instead of updating the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi, Both the current discussion as well as the overlay docs don't seem to cover the support topic as far i could see. This is an issue for us forums people though - our daily work involves classifying misplaced threads into officially supported (read: in the tree) and unsupported (someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:48 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: The time it takes to actually apply fixes etc. is another point. This is where I'd respectfully disagree. Bugzilla is a poor system for sharing and managing the flow of ebuilds and patches. It would be nice if there were a way for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Markus Ullmann
My intention was to solve some parts with him directly and then send out some solutions but he wants to do everything on list, so I'm sending it out for you to know. -- LOGPOST -- [22:09:15] jokey so after reading your posts I get the impression you fear that this project will end up in some BMG

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Luca Barbato
Grant Goodyear wrote: Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 07:42:03PM CDT] My reasoning is that bugzilla provides a place for community development of an ebuild (including commentary!), which would not be true of just the overlay. If one were instead to add a magical bugs whiteboard

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:20 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Grant Goodyear wrote: Stefan Schweizer wrote: [Wed Jun 07 2006, 07:42:03PM CDT] My reasoning is that bugzilla provides a place for community development of an ebuild (including commentary!), which would not be true of just the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 08/06/06, foser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the problem with maintainer-wanted ebuilds is that they are crappy, but that there is no dev willing to maintain them and ensure their quality over time. 'sunrise' (who came up with that name ? cheap asian poetry

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-08 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 08/06/06, Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do very much object to using any gentoo.org infrastructure or subdomains to do so. If someone is going to tackle that, it should be done outside of Gentoo proper. We don't need to be stuck maintaining and supporting a

[gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-07 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, I have founded a new Gentoo Project for the Gentoo User Overlay. The intention is to give contributors a single place to put their ebuilds - a place where they can be downloaded, updated and be moved to portage more easily than through bugzilla. It is also a good place for users who would