Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

[R0b0t1]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis@×××××.io> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:44:26 PM EST R0b0t1 wrote:
>> How easy is it to move patches to Gentoo infrastructure if the patches
>> are not provided by upstream? I am slightly uncomfortable with
>> everything being pushed to websites like GitHub by default.
>
> How are patches different from other distfiles?  Plenty of packages are
> distributed from Github.  It's the purpose of the mirror system to
> remove the direct reliance on the original source.

I forgot most files were mirrored. So the infrastructure that is the
answer to my question is already in place. Consequently, I don't think
there's any reason to argue against this, unless it ultimately ends up
being a ton of work to package small files (which I can't comment on).

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote:
> On 2017-12-19 21:44, R0b0t1 wrote:
>> How easy is it to move patches to Gentoo infrastructure if the patches
>> are not provided by upstream? I am slightly uncomfortable with
>> everything being pushed to websites like GitHub by default.
>
> Don't get me wrong but this a *dev* mailing list. Your statement clearly
> indicate that you don't understand about what we are talking. So maybe
> it is better to not say a word?
>
> 1) Gentoo doesn't host anything on GitHub. We are only mirroring content
> from git.gentoo.org on GitHub.
>
> 2) We are talking about Gentoo patches, nothing which can be found upstream.
>

Yes, this was my point, as now it is Gentoo's responsibility to distribute them.

> 3) https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/mirrors/
>

My apologies, sir. As I have tried to impress upon this list, I am not
very smart, but I do genuinely mean well. I will try to not make
people so angry in the future.

Cheers,
     R0b0t1