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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Having a quality infrastructure should happen in parallel to github mirrors. |
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> Uses may use the proprietary one or the opensource one. |
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While I generally tend to agree with you, if we're just talking about |
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mirroring is this a real problem? |
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Right now Gentoo has a large number of rsync/http mirrors. As far as |
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any of us are concerned, they're just an DNS address that speaks |
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rsync/http. None of us have any idea what OS or software they're |
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running. If one of our mirrors is IIS running on Windows 7, that is |
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pretty transparent to the end user. They're just mirrors. |
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That is basically all github is in this case. A commit shows up in |
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the gentoo infra repository, and some process somewhere pushes it to |
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the github repository. If we were to set up an independent network of |
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git mirrors, they'd probably work the same way. (Git should actually |
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be pretty easy to mirror.) To an end user all they see is a DNS name |
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that talks whatever protocol git uses. Short of an on-site inspection |
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you'd never be able to prove that it is actually FOSS. |
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Apologies if I sounds like an MS "open standards, not open source" |
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shill - but to some extent when you're talking about networked |
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services they work out to be the same thing. I think it is far more |
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important to keep the infrastructure that creates the tree pure-FOSS |
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(and documented/published so that anybody who wants to could basically |
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"roll their own Gentoo"). If we use a more commercial service to just |
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help scale it up like a CDN or something like github, that isn't |
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really as essential to the essence of Gentoo. I do think that people |
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who complain about depending on a github-based workflow have a |
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legitimate concern, but that isn't what we're talking about here. |
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In any case, nobody is getting rid of the rsync mirrors anytime soon, |
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so we don't have to be in any rush to figure this out. Consider this |
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thinking out loud if you will... |
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Rich |
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