Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

[Joshua Kinard]

On 03/14/2015 18:25, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> This is a mostly inconsequential issue, but the Git migration provides
> us a chance to make a clean break...
>
> The repository of our ebuilds and the name of the CVS module have been
> called gentoo-x86 since the start of Gentoo, because it originally was
> only for x86. Here's the very first ebuild added to CVS [1], Portage
> v1.1 is also early on [2].
>
> On the rsync side, it was originally called gentoo-x86-portage, and then
> between the 1.2 and 1.4 release (early 2003), the stages switched to
> using the name 'gentoo-portage'; as recently as 2010, various mirrors
> were STILL fetching from the name of gentoo-x86-portage, when we
> reminded them that they should have switched years ago.
>
> All of these names have caused some confusion. Trying to explain to a
> new user that the Portage tree refers to the collection of ebuilds used
> by a PMS-compliant package manager (eg Portage) is problematic.
>
> To that end, I'd like us to brainstorm names for the new
> bikeshed^R^R^R^R^R^R^R^R
> repository, to go live at the time of the Git migration.
>
> It will be the single tree that contains what you find today in the
> gentoo-x86 CVS module; and on rsync as gentoo-x86-portage and
> gentoo-portage.
>
> Ideally, it should be something that works as a relatively unique
> identifier (Portage is bad as it refers to both the package manager and
> the tree), and fits easily into discussions, both in-person and online.
>
> Questions:
> 0. What names for the tree/repository.
> 1. We have some namespaces in Git: proj, dev, priv, data, sites, exp; should
>    the tree be in one of those namespaces, a new namespace, or be without
>    a namespace? git://anongit.gentoo.org/NEW-NAME.git.
>
> [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mutt/mutt-1.2.5-1.ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date
> [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/files/ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date#l1051
>

I'm going to march to the beat of a different drummer and suggest we keep it as
"gentoo-portage".  That's probably the old developer/luddite in me talking, but
regardless of whatever the future name is, I'm probably always going to call it
the "portage tree", because that's all I've ever known it as.

I guess if I *had* to choose a new name, the following variations come to mind
(kinda in no particular order):

pkgtree
gentoo-pkgtree
ptree
gentoo-ptree
the-tree
trunk
core

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@g.o
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

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