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Thomas Sachau wrote:

> Is there a special reason, why we need to split things even more? Why not invite those devs and
> interested users to sunrise? Training ground for interested users is one of the main goals of our
> project.

Sunrise has a very different policy (e.g. no packages already in
portage) and workflow (e.g. dev review).

You know I fully support Sunrise and regularly refer users to it, when
they want to contribute. But for what we want it is not exactly the
right tool.

Mark Loeser wrote:
> Why can't this be on our official overlays? Is there a technical
> reason, because we seem to just be spreading things out even more than
> necessary.

Because on g.o.g.o. we can not admin it ourselves, resulting in delays
and adding to infra's burden. Also, the web interface is quite bare, not
as pretty and nice to work with as gitorious (and github).

Arun Raghavan wrote:
> This still does not address the original problem - if
> $external_service shuts down, is bought out, has arbitrary terms about
> content that are not immediately clear as being unfavourable to us,
> (at least) that part of the project which is hosted on is negatively
> affected.

As this is a git overlay, it's not a problem. It would be very easy to
move the public repo to another location.

Ben

2009/8/12 Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>:
> Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> This still does not address the original problem - if
>> $external_service shuts down, is bought out, has arbitrary terms about
>> content that are not immediately clear as being unfavourable to us,
>> (at least) that part of the project which is hosted on is negatively
>> affected.
>
> As this is a git overlay, it's not a problem. It would be very easy to
> move the public repo to another location.

Which still does not address concerns about (admittedly paranoid)
concerns about terms of use and content.
--
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)

Arun Raghavan wrote:
> 2009/8/12 Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>:
>> As this is a git overlay, it's not a problem. It would be very easy to
>> move the public repo to another location.
>
> Which still does not address concerns about (admittedly paranoid)
> concerns about terms of use and content.

Not being paranoid, I fail to see how that is a problem.

Ben

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 18:26:04 Ben de Groot wrote:
> Mark Loeser wrote:
> > Why can't this be on our official overlays? Is there a technical
> > reason, because we seem to just be spreading things out even more than
> > necessary.
>
> Because on g.o.g.o. we can not admin it ourselves, resulting in delays
> and adding to infra's burden. Also, the web interface is quite bare, not
> as pretty and nice to work with as gitorious (and github).

so that should be addressed. i.e. please file a bug.
-mike

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> Is this dead before it even began?  I'm getting no replies from
> yngwin@gentoo.org.

He is away: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/devaway.xml?select=yngwin#yngwin

On 08/11/2009 01:28 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
>[...]
> So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at
> http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to
> join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added.
> Administration of the overlay will be shared among the participating
> Gentoo devs, so new committers can quickly be added. Any users that want
> commit status can get access after their work is found to be of
> sufficient quality. We encourage this, as the overlay is also a training
> ground for new contributors to Gentoo.

Is this dead before it even began? I'm getting no replies from
yngwin@gentoo.org.