Comments on On the brink: layman-1.2.0 has been released

Any git or svn overlay that writes with ssh instea...

2008-06-03T08:16:00.000+02:00

Any git or svn overlay that writes with ssh instead of dav (which is pretty much crap all the time). It would often require a username. Example:

anonymous: git://foo.com/bar.git
committer: git+ssh://user@foo.com/bar.git

Are this really that many overlays? For the overla...

2008-06-03T07:43:00.000+02:00

Are this really that many overlays? For the overlays I use on overlays.gentoo.org the read URL is the same as the write URL and I'm usually working within the layman checkout.

I guess this might be different for git overlays, right?

Could you give an example of an overlay where both URLs differ? Would this be different per user or is the write URL a generic one?

I don't really like that as much, because I imagin...

2008-06-03T07:00:00.000+02:00

I don't really like that as much, because I imagine large numbers of people duplicating the same information (everyone who commits to a given overlay).

I always add another list of private overlays as a...

2008-06-03T06:12:00.000+02:00

I always add another list of private overlays as also suggested in the config file (e.g. http://mydomain.org/my-layman-list.xml). Is that not sufficient?

It would be neat if layman had a way to add overla...

2008-06-03T02:51:00.000+02:00

It would be neat if layman had a way to add overlays I'll actually be committing to, using an alternate, writable url.