On 30/05/06, Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Basically, it would be something that allowed you to "browse" the current tree of submitted ebuilds. This way users that submit something can categorize it for devs to easily look for ebuilds they may be interested in, and we can make it so we could easily grab the ebuilds from this hacked up idea of a tree.
Hmm something like a tree, containing ebuilds, that people can check out and browse... :)
Comments on this idea are appreciated. I wouldn't mind helping write it and maintain it, but having interest and support in doing something like this is definately going to be needed :)
The idea of an unmaintained tree has come up before and been shot down because (paraphrasing) 1. "nobody will check the ebuilds" 2. "nobody will maintain it" 3. "nobody will bother marking stuff stable" and 4."it will be a security nightmare". Personally I think it would be fun to just throw open the gates and have an open git (or other dscms) "no-guarantees" repository that pulls from the main tree every day, and which anyone with an email address can sign up for and then push their own stuff to. Or maybe some wiki-frontend to a branch of the portage tree. Yeah there would be some security issues and vandalism just like any open content system. Nevertheless, It would be a very interesting experiment in opening ebuild development and maintenance to a larger audience. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
