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On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> In the long run I am considering just creating my own clone of all |
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> infrastructure bits so I can fix things |
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I just wanted to comment that things like this should never be viewed |
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as a bad thing. Many contributions to Gentoo arose because somebody |
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basically took something they saw and made an unofficial fork they |
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improved upon. That may or may not have later become official, but it |
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is often beneficial all the same. |
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I'd just suggest that anybody doing this document what they do and |
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publish their sources, so that others can do the same more easily. |
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My ideal state for Gentoo would be one where very little of what we do |
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is centrally housed at all, and infra is just a bunch of servers we |
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tend to use as a matter of convention, but anybody can clone one at |
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any time and set up their own. Federated authentication could let |
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people login to various services without having to actually have |
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access to anything sensitive. This would make it much easier for |
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anybody to offer new services, or to offer patches to infra, and then |
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infra could perhaps be more in the role of a trusted gatekeeper and |
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spend less time having to implement every little thing. |
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That said, it is something that would need to be worked towards. My |
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understanding is that infra is already trying to keep the sensitive |
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stuff separate from the mundane in their newer work, but I'm sure they |
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have a ton of old stuff that hasn't been migrated in this fashion. As |
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with many teams they're probably a bit overloaded, so a big question |
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is how to make it happen without just throwing complaints on the folks |
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who are trying their best to keep it all going. |
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Rich |
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