Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

Today’s a public holiday over here in the UK, and I’ve spent most of it drafting an initial project page for the Gentoo Overlays project, and drafting an initial policy document. It looked like a nice sunny day out the window too, but instead I’ve been wading through my gentoo-dev ML archive, trying to make sure the policy reflects what was discussed earlier in the year.

Thanks to Antarus and Christel, we also have our own channel #gentoo-overlays on IRC.

I’ve spoken with wrobel this morning, and we’re going to be recommending that people use wrobel’s excellent layman app for accessing overlays hosted on overlays.g.o.

The debate about which distributed VCS’s to support - and how on earth we’re going to manage to do so - is continuing in #gentoo-overlays. If you have an opinion, drop by and let us know!

Phase 1 of overlays.g.o will launch with trac & subversion as the offered service. Let’s get that up and running, whilst we look at what alternatives we can offer.

The next step is (still) for me to email Lance with instructions on how we want trac & subversion setup on the box. I was hoping to get that finished today, but I’ll have to finish that later this week. Things are busy for infra atm anyway, so don’t expect to see overlays.g.o launched for a little while yet!