From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 541DF138334 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B732FE0863; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBB31E0788 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from whubbs1.gaikai.biz (unknown [100.42.103.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: williamh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BDF934C2B3 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 29048 invoked by uid 1000); Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:04:37 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New distfile mirror layout Message-ID: <20191023220437.GA28976@whubbs1.dev.av1.gaikai.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <752be6c75f337df8ee8124a804247d2fb27e73b4.camel@gentoo.org> <12e05dbf-9b62-0167-85c1-6f671e156a54@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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12e05dbf-9b62-0167-85c1-6f671e156a54@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: 14927ec0-7d9b-4418-9413-972d4940cc58 X-Archives-Hash: 96011eb0a556c6b10fc010783ebfbfbe --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 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. > >=20 > > It probably would have been better to make these suggestions when the > > GLEP was discussed close to two years ago. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Agreed, although, I don't even remember this coming up two years ago. Bu= t, > I was tied up with a lot of work-related stress and tasks, so probably ju= st > my memory storage backend not having enough cycles to commit it to...neur= ons. =20 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. Thanks, William [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/cfc4f8595df2edf9a25ba9e= cae2463ba > IMHO, perhaps future GLEPs should have a defined window to implement them > following discussion. Having the discussion, then waiting a few years > before implementing them leads to discussions like this where we're argui= ng > about the color of the boat after the boat has sailed off into the distan= ce. >=20 > --=20 > Joshua Kinard > Gentoo/MIPS > kumba@gentoo.org > rsa6144/5C63F4E3F5C6C943 2015-04-27 > 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 >=20 > "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. A= nd > our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-bet= ween." >=20 > --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic >=20 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCXbDObAAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OIosAJ4oJn2YUtx1v5Kx0SoRmED/WcAH7gCfR3qG6L/TOGGCKaLURsFblSEXwwQ= =cKdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--