In my humble opinion, sunrise is a needless layer of bureaucracy to getting new packages into the tree. Personlly, I think it's not a bad idea for new packages to be submitted as enhancements directly on bugzilla, possibly CCing any relevant projects who could provide a review.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > It has recently came to my attention that things are quite bad with > the Sunrise project [1] lately. Most of the developers have left > the project, and it seems that the contributors have done the same. > The public reviewed repository has major QA issues and hasn't been > updated since mid-2015. The last non-developer commit to the private > repo also seems to come from mid-2015, followed only by a number of > removals and fixes done by Gentoo developers. > > Therefore, I'd like to ask the following question: is it time to > announce the project dead, or do some developers want to revive it? > If the former, could someone try to contact last active contributors > and ask them if they'd like to move their ebuilds to ::gentoo > via proxy-maint? > > I should point out that Sunrise has lost a lot of popularity to > proxy-maint, then also to GitHub pull requests (and the two combined). > The developers involved with those provide quite a good review > workflow, with the extra advantage of getting packages straight > into ::gentoo. I don't know how many users would be interested > in keeping them in ::sunrise if they could have them straight > in ::gentoo with similar (if not less...) effort. > > Your thoughts? > > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sunrise > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> >
