Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> posted 1242777068.30374.30.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Wed, 20 May 2009 02:51:08 +0300:
> It is about getting popular packages (based on various metrics) into the > official tree for easy access and with known quality. Perhaps some concrete examples of packages you have in mind might be useful. I list in the footnote[1] a couple I originally merged from sunrise, that are now in-tree. I that the type of package you had in mind? What /about/ sunrise packages? Will you be working with them to bring "popular" packages from there in-tree too? Of course in your case the ebuilds aren't in the tree yet, but bug numbers for apps you believe fit the "popular" description might be useful. "Popular packages" is a nebulous enough term on its own, that some examples might help. Also, an example or two of what you might consider a borderline case, that you might consider adding if the load on the proposed project wasn't too high already, but would reject if it was. Feel free to add comments or explanations on how you came to that conclusion, both for the popular and borderline examples, as well, if you think it necessary. ..... [1] I still use sys-apps/moreutils. The other one was www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla and its dep media-libs- swfdec, which I had some trouble with and eventually unmerged in favor of a couple of youtube downloaders, since youtube was what I mainly used swfdec for anyway. -- 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
