On 06/13/2016 10:59 AM, Duncan wrote: > M. J. Everitt posted on Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:09:13 +0100 as excerpted: > >> On 13/06/16 09:04, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >>> On 11/06/16 09:00, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> If you are not going to maintain your contribution, we can't >>>> guarantee it will be accepted. I'm certainly not interested in having >>>> to worry about 20 more maintainer-needed packages next month because >>>> someone contributed an ebuild that seemed good enough. >>> This is a good point. Contributions that no devs are willing to >>> maintain would not make it into the curated and reviewed repositories I >>> am referring to. >>> >>> As an aside, perhaps we should start featuring third-party overlays >>> more prominently, as this is where these ebuilds belong. >> >> Excuse me .. and this thread emerged from deprecating the EXACT thing >> you are suggesting!? > > Hardly. There are many project, developer and advanced user overlays, > many of which are available via layman, while others may only be on github > or elsewhere. The one deprecated and under discussion for removal in > this thread is sunrise, which was a great idea in its time but has now > been left behind by further developments, including more individual > overlays in layman, and the continued rise in popularity of github. In > fact, the effect has been so large that sunrise has effectively > stagnated, and nobody noticed it for months. Now that people have > noticed it, they/we are simply recognizing the change in usage after-the- > fact and debating the most useful way to shut down just the one single > overlay, because others have succeeded so well that there's little need > for the special incubator role sunrise once played any longer. > +1
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