antarus posted recently to the user reps forum asking for feedback on how to
solve user experience glitches like the recent xmms removal. (I do *not*
want to discuss that thanks ;) The thread is at:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-516142.html
richfish came up with the simplest solution to the problem of old ebuilds:
> The best possible case I can think of for most of these ebuilds is to push
> them upstream assuming upstream is alive and willing to maintain them
> (possibly with some user-supplied patches now and then). Users would then
> be responsible for installing the ebuilds to their local overlays, and
> filing bugs with upstream if something doesn't work. In fact, my strong
> preference in this is to just tell users to use their local overlay
> regardless of whether upstream accepts ownership of the ebuilds. I would
> even suggest we encourage this by providing a dedicated forum and IRC
> channel for users to help each other with their 'private' ebuilds.
>
This requires a new IRC channel and forum (one suggestion was `sunset' 8) so
I thought I'd post in here to see what everyone thought.
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solve user experience glitches like the recent xmms removal. (I do *not*
want to discuss that thanks ;) The thread is at:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-516142.html
richfish came up with the simplest solution to the problem of old ebuilds:
> The best possible case I can think of for most of these ebuilds is to push
> them upstream assuming upstream is alive and willing to maintain them
> (possibly with some user-supplied patches now and then). Users would then
> be responsible for installing the ebuilds to their local overlays, and
> filing bugs with upstream if something doesn't work. In fact, my strong
> preference in this is to just tell users to use their local overlay
> regardless of whether upstream accepts ownership of the ebuilds. I would
> even suggest we encourage this by providing a dedicated forum and IRC
> channel for users to help each other with their 'private' ebuilds.
>
This requires a new IRC channel and forum (one suggestion was `sunset' 8) so
I thought I'd post in here to see what everyone thought.
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