From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7FD1381F3 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 15:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41FE9E09C4; Tue, 14 May 2013 15:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 472E5E09C1 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f181.google.com with SMTP id dn14so746721obc.12 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 08:44:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=CgRNXR4jKWSQwafVt3vSQw/4BksajMdupzHCf0W4Js0=; b=VGpW6RuCIiUB9sL1+pslR4T0p0LF4oMhHJGli2shccPxJyc6R9DoqDoCo5pme/fnEo fbDy+GQKuPge43hufW7hmPxQ7vssrdnwW819nGDdfns8s/CpZ8MZ2S5jrMiJvFJHGOYF I226imEHAcwx59GZrmdhdzhkV4NW1QXAHGcUKeV7+7wPYnP9X8rZ2oyglnzFrGLMuL3s g0uRHEjOa+vKzkITLHlObu2PMBZY2V3Eco90CkYBqQ/n56nJUrR7JSrUdWxfb223DusR /4SqarxHO7FFP8zE71J+Pgq9Z4gXnFswoMRno0QqA/u+ONTi2TzE52X/UrDIBAC7mh0g HcXQ== X-Received: by 10.60.148.169 with SMTP id tt9mr16804665oeb.62.1368546299162; Tue, 14 May 2013 08:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-91-128.tx.res.rr.com. [76.187.91.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jt1sm2728144oeb.5.2013.05.14.08.44.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 14 May 2013 08:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 14 May 2013 10:44:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:44:55 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Ulrich Mueller , devmanual@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: devmanual moved to github Message-ID: <20130514154455.GA10062@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller , devmanual@gentoo.org References: <518F7DE2.70703@gentoo.org> <20879.38369.270576.25249@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <518FAF6B.80501@gentoo.org> <20879.47550.568189.770408@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <518FBB3D.1030002@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zhXaljGHf11kAtnf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 3c8813bc-5dee-49ec-8a97-aefd5865715d X-Archives-Hash: 4f28c00ecb5e546dab6f9e2c74e86cba --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:08:21PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Markos Chandras w= rote: > > > > > > This is the kind of policies that kill user contributions. I am very > > sad to witness this once again. > > >=20 > I have mixed feelings for this very reason. The concept of accepting > contributions on github is an EXCELLENT one. The problem is that it > is proprietary, which creates division, and could potentially create > problems down the road (no way to know - the sorts of things that can > happen anytime you depend on proprietary software). =20 If github were to go down, all you would have to do is use a command similar to the one given in the first message of this thread to switch upstream to another location. I would argue that there really isn't a hard dependency on github in the same way there would be if they were using some centralized vcs such as svn. I think this is a pretty weak argument for systems that use distributed vcs's like git. > > I will take care of the github mirroring myself. For those who will > > merge pull requests on github, please take extra care to resolve the > > merges properly. > > >=20 > So, first, THANK YOU! =20 If we are going to take this stance, should we consider removing all packages from the tree that have their upstream on github? William --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGSW/cACgkQblQW9DDEZTgq3gCfeLhW/B5v5LCgRzp/KHc7Tp6u uc8An1keC8gu1rEp83Vpg59fc2USl5+W =RNiF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--