On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:22 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > 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. > > Being able to maintain these ebuilds in version control rather than > random attachments to bugzilla is a huge improvement.
Of course they would be, to the team in question. To a few random developers being responsible for *any* kind of package, it won't make much difference since their familiarity level is very near zero. Good examples of this *working* are php, webapps, or even vmware. Bad examples would be this overlay. Instead of a directed and focused overlay, designed to ease testing and development on otherwise intrusive changes to the tree, it is a dumping ground for ebuilds that either weren't good enough, or weren't interesting enough for inclusion. Either that, or they're ebuilds related to an already-established project where the team members simply don't have the time. This is probably the only case where the ebuilds in question might make it into the tree after being in this overlay. This overlay is a dumping ground for the barely-wanted, and little more. As I have said, I don't see it actually improving the situation nearly as much as it will be detrimental to it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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