Hi,

Now that we have the official git repository, I've switched user-facing
git mirrors from rsync->git to the real git. As a result, users are now
complaining that some random Gentoo metadata has disappeared.

As you may have noticed already, I am *really* unhappy about adding
special conditionals with hardcoded URLs (and ugly mixing stuff) for
Gentoo. So if you really don't want to put the stuff into the repo,
please at least:

1. Move DTDs to a git repository (seriously, I don't want to have to
touch CVS).

2. Strip the year from gentoo-news [1]. I think we have all
the agreement to proceed there. I will prepare a GLEP update today,
and if given OK, I can update the repo, and the scripts.

3. Provide a machine-readable description where those files/directories
come from. Not sure how that should look but how about something along
the lines of repos.conf:

  metadata/external-repos.conf::

    [gentoo-news]
    location = metadata/news
    sync-type = git
    sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/gentoo-news.git

    [herds]
    location = metadata/herds.xml
    # or do we want to use git here?
    sync-type = http
    sync-uri = https://api.gentoo.org/packages/herds.xml

Comments?

[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523828

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>