Ciaran, Eclectic -> Eselect, Berlios.de and Gentoo Infrastructure Team

Much has changed since my last post:

Ciaran has been suspended for 60 days from working on Gentoo. He took it the hard way and broke as many bridges as possible. One of those bridges is eclectic.

That's why Aaron (ka0ttic), Tom (slarti) and I forked it. The new project is called eselect and lives already happily on Gentoo Infrastructure. Kudos to Lutz Henckel from berlios.de who shipped us a complete dump of the old eclectic repository, that's quite some service ;-) Additionaly, Sven (SwifT) has provided us with one of his most recent additions to the Gentoo Documentation Project: He's called Shyam (fox2mike) and will help us by XMLifying our docs and keeping them up to date.

At the moment, there is no app-admin/eselect in the portage tree, only app-admin/eclectic. We will change that together with our first release (0.9.4) of eselect.

Also, a big "thank you guys - i simply love you" to Christian (trapni) and Lars (Pylon) for setting up svn.gentoo.org, thus implementing GLEP 36. Some projects already use it, some will probably move soon. However, it is not meant as a replacement for the existing CVS service. Subversion shall rather be another possible choice of managing your project. Heh, once again, Gentoo's all about choices! :-)