Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 17:04 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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.
>

...or simply forgotten whether it was approved or not after waiting
almost two years for Portage team provide a reference implementation.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny