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On 2020-09-16 Wed 09:36, Jonas Stein wrote: |
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> The heart of a distribution is basically its infrastructure and the |
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> tools to test, maintain and distribute packages. |
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> If a distribution relies on external sources, which are not maintained |
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> by the distribution, but a single person, it has been forked. |
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> A healthy distribution needs to maintain its own tools. |
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Gentoo is quite free to mirror or fork various tools it deems critical |
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to itself. All this should require is poking your favorite infra contact |
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until they set it up. Beyond that, forcing recalcitrant upstreams to |
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move is futile since Gentoo has no leverage besides asking nicely. |
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Speaking for myself, I avoid hosting most of my Gentoo-related work |
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(outside of gentoo repo ebuild mangling) on gentoo.org since I prefer |
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the services offered elsewhere in terms of usability, visibility, and |
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project maintenance. Take this as constructive criticism of how Gentoo |
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currently operates as an upstream host and see it as a call for putting |
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more emphasis towards deploying GitLab, Gitea, or other similar service |
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for Gentoo. |
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Tim |
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