On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:57 +0200, Markus Ullmann wrote: > Well at least briefly. We decided to maintain it in an official way and > thus keep an eye on the quality of the checkins. As said, at least a > briefly view at it and also a repoman scan.
A repoman scan won't catch subtle bugs caused in other packages by packages in this overlay. It *will* add extra maintenance to any package maintainer within Gentoo. > Sounds he likes to contribute / maintain some apps, just not the whole > thing you have to do when being a full dev. But he expressed his > interest in this as a possible entry point. So I guess we can keep an > eye on him... Yes. This person is also fully capable of continuing to provide ebuilds to bugzilla. > But one thing is important: As the project has some overlay nature, > there _may_ be the one or other small issue with it. On the other hand > what ebuild is 100% bugfree? ;) QA would have nothing todo then... And > here we don't break the (stable) tree if some really nasty issue ever > slips through our fingers. No, but the ebuilds are also checked by the team in question, that actually knows the packages, versus a couple of developers that will be overworked, dealing with packages that they are completely unfamiliar with and have no experience with. I just don't see the two as equal in any way. I also do not see how this helps Gentoo development. The only thing that this does is allows for a few packages that hardly anyone is interested in having become available for our users. That's a noble effort, but there's usually a reason why these packages do not get picked up. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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