On 9/19/24 11:00 PM, Kevin Brace wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Okay, if I was not clear about what I wanted, I will try to clarify. > I personally wanted the "sort of official" Eclipse IDE Gentoo overlay on > GitHub to take up my updated EAPI 7 based ebuilds, but the only person I was > able to contact refused. > I call the repository "sort of official" since it is still on the Gentoo wiki > page. [1] > I fixed the ebuild so I do not feel like it should be rejected by the > developer, but it is what it is. > Since this is what the situation is, I feel like the existing "sort of > official" Eclipse IDE Gentoo overlay should be forked, and the updated > ebuilds should be incorporated. > Or, perhaps I can gain access to commit the updates to this repository, but I > assume the people listed on the GitHub page probably will not allow that. > I hope the explanation I wrote here makes sense. > I was not aware of the alternative unofficial repository . > I will take a look at it. > That being said, the wiki page still has the now broken repository. [2] > Something needs to be done to remedy the situation.
The eclipse overlay is hosted on gitweb.gentoo.org and IMHO if it's going to be there rather than in some individual's private github account there should be an expectation that the Gentoo project can seek out new maintainers to take over, if the current maintainers don't wish to continue maintaining it. If the current maintainers wished to keep maintaining it, that would be one thing, but refusing to maintain it in the desire to have it die is pretty silly. Another option would be to package it in GURU: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU -- this would imply that you expect all users who have volunteered to contribute to GURU to be able to make updates to eclipse. Then delete the eclipse overlay as obsolete and superseded. -- Eli Schwartz
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