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> On Aug 5, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:01 PM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Part of my frustration is that seemingly "anything open source related |
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>> can be held in Gentoo" and I'm somewhat against that as I feel it |
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>> dilutes the Gentoo mission. We are here to make a distribution, not |
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>> maintain random libraries. If you want to do that feel free; but I |
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>> don't see a need for that work to be associated with Gentoo. |
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> Honestly, other than maybe some prestige I don't really get the point |
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> of hosting random software in Gentoo either. These days getting a |
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> repo on github or any of its 47 competitors is a few clicks. You have |
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> zero overhead from a governance standpoint, and a dev can of course |
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> stick ebuilds in the main repository with zero interference. It seems |
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> a lot cleaner from a copyright/etc standpoint as well. |
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Prestige is good. We have prestige from our (myself and a few others) work in upstream ZFS and Gentoo is well respected there. You will not hear binary package zealots bashing Gentoo in ZFS circles. If a sub-project that touches the entire OSS community can be even a tenth as effective as the efforts in ZFS have been in eliminating binary package zealotry, it would be well worth it. |
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> Even openrc is hosted outside of Gentoo these days, which makes perfect sense. |
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> With the distro as a whole it is a bit more complex, though honestly |
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> I'd love to see us get to a point where the whole thing can be |
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> SECURELY hosted entirely off-infra as well, even if we still chose to |
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> run our own infra. I just see it as a way to both provide options to |
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> our users and ourselves. For the latter, being able to host anything |
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> on an outside service means that if some component of infra goes down |
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> we could have mirrors already running and pulling from infra, or if |
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> for some reason somebody sues us or roots us or whatever we can pick |
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> up and move without much fuss. |
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> Running your own wiki/bugzilla/lists/etc was about the only way to do |
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> things in the 90s/etc, but these days there are other options... |
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> Rich |
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