Dnia 8 czerwca 2016 09:05:37 CEST, Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> 
napisał(a):
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:31:46 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>> Sunrise was a great way to learn packaging for Gentoo. Reviews were
>*very* 
>> strict in the past, resulting in better QA standards than the Gentoo
>main tree 
>> - - and a definite frustration threshold that one had to overcome.
>With a couple 
>> of packages in Sunrise, doing the quizzes was a piece of cake though.
>> 
>> That said...
>> 
>> If there's no activity anymore, we definitely should remove the
>overlay from 
>> Layman and (important!) remove the mentions of Sunrise from our web
>pages 
>> (e.g., "contributing to Gentoo").
>
>I agree that sunrise should be retired, but this must be done
>gracefully, because people (including myself) are still using some
>packages from it.
>
>A grace period (between read-only state and removal from layman and
>other listings) should be at least one year, maybe several years
>as was suggested in another e-mail here. This way people will be
>able to safely migrate and pick any packages of interest from
>sunrise to the main tree or other repos. 

It is read-only for a year already, so I'll just remove it:-P.

But seriously, if you really care to keep it, go and fix it to the point of not 
failing hard.

>
>Best regards,
>Andrew Savchenko


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Best regards,
Michał Górny (by phone)

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