Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:32:38 -0400:
> What we *are* arguing against is having something in a > non-project-specific overlay, that is not maintained by the project in > question, and has *specifically* been rejected by the project in > question. This sort of thing should *never* make it into the sunrise > overlay, since it has been rejected. But as Stuart Herbert pointed out, a project can be self-authorized, by the current rules. Project Sunrise therefore didn't /need/ permission to come into existence and set up its own overlay. The announcement here, while perhaps it /should/ have been discussed as a proposal first, therefore didn't break the rules as they are now. Meanwhile, the Project Sunrise overlay /is/ a project specific overlay, and /is/ maintained by the project in question (Sunrise). That has been specifically stated in the Project Sunrise formulation. Furthermore, there's specific allowance for competing projects, and as Stuart again points out, ebuilds form herds which are maintained by projects, and once a project rejects the ebuild, it can then be picked up by another developer or project, in which case the project that rejected it is no more responsible for it except that they can continue to refuse that it be in that project. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
