Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 01:18:02AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> On 10/21/2019 19:36, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:42 AM Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
> >> Also, another idea is to use a cheap hash function (e.g. fletcher) and just have the mirrors do the hashing behind the scenes. Then we would have the best of both worlds.
> >
> > It probably would have been better to make these suggestions when the
> > GLEP was discussed close to two years ago.
> >
> > I'm glad that we have ideas for improvements but I worry that we're
> > just backseat driving at this point given that the GLEP's now
> > implemented.
>
> Agreed, although, I don't even remember this coming up two years ago.  But,
> I was tied up with a lot of work-related stress and tasks, so probably just
> my memory storage backend not having enough cycles to commit it to...neurons.
 
 After looking at this further, I found that the glep was presented to
 us in Jan 2018 on the dev ml [1].

I checked all council meeting logs and discovered that this was never
brought to us formally for approval.

It looks like the developers decided to do this as an
infrastructure/portage project and because of that they felt like they
didn't need a glep.

Thanks,

William

 [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/cfc4f8595df2edf9a25ba9ecae2463ba

> IMHO, perhaps future GLEPs should have a defined window to implement them
> following discussion.  Having the discussion, then waiting a few years
> before implementing them leads to discussions like this where we're arguing
> about the color of the boat after the boat has sailed off into the distance.
>
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