Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: patches.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:39:50
Message-Id: 20041013123948.GF26288@mail.lieber.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: patches.gentoo.org by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:46:47AM +0200 or thereabouts, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > What is the difference from just putting these files in your own dev
3 > space? If they just exist on dev.gentoo.org the developers themselves can
4 > arange removing etc.
5
6 Developers shouldn't be doing this, really. dev.g.o is not set up with any
7 sort of redundancy, nor is it sized to provide reasonable scalability in
8 the event a popular patch is placed there. Basically, it's not designed or
9 intended to be a mirror.
10
11 --kurt