On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 07:43 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > What I would like to propose is that we have an official (yes, official) > cvs overlay that is used by developers *and* contributors to commit new > ebuilds and changes to. Mirrors would still pull, as they always have, > from the gentoo-x86 cvs repo. "Official" Gentoo developers would then be > able to take from the overlay and commit to the main tree at will, but > have a common stomping ground for contributors and developers to work in > without fear of breaking the rest of the tree. We reward those users > (pardon the terms if you find that condescending, its not intended as > such) with the drive and passion, but not the means, resources, or time, > by making them contributors to this overlay, where they can make cvs > commits. > > This overlay wouldn't necessarily need to be the whole of the tree, > either. Some areas, such as profiles, could be absent, as well as select > projects (perhaps the kernel and toolchain portions?). These > contributors wouldn't need to have a flood of @gentoo.org email > addresses - they are only contributors who, for whatever reason, are not > actually full scale developers.
I'm just asking, but isn't this exactly what Sunrise is supposed to be? Isn't this the reason it was approved by the previous Council? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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