Re: The future of the Sunrise project

On 06/07/2016 10:31 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>
> > Your thoughts?
>
> > [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sunrise
>
> 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
But here's the funny thing:

While there was a syntactical review that made these ebuilds wonderfully
strict no one seems to have compile-tested them. So when I ran a
test-build over all of sunrise about half the packages had invalid
SRC_URI, didn't compile, patches didn't apply, etc.

So from my perspective it was *useless* enforcement of arbitrary rules
with little to show for it.

> - 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").
>
> We now have functioning and active alternatives, see proxy-maintainers.
>
>