From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OAzcb-0005Mp-UI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 06:04:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C40CE076D; Sun, 9 May 2010 06:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992EAE073E for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 06:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (e179016084.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.179.16.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29431B4010 for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 06:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4BE65034.3000301@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 08:03:32 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100419 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] paper on oss-qm project References: <20100502223213.GD29226@nibiru.local> <4BDF18C3.1070507@gentoo.org> <20100508201141.GA23216@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20100508201141.GA23216@nibiru.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 524e7a69-91e6-4819-9cf8-cdb4bab94226 X-Archives-Hash: 6e2e1539710586dd9539c6f28d1b9c05 On 05/08/10 22:11, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > what problems do you see w/ licensing ? > > IMHO, each branch simply has to follow the upstream's license. i have yet to see easy cases with licensing. i haven't thought about it in detail yet, tough, to be honest. > simply normalize: don't use letters but numbers. i don't believe in simple normalization before i have seen it. > b) it's not really a release but just a development snapshot - > that doesnt belong into the main oss-qm repository why doesn't it belong in there? > I've chosen that scheme to make the borders more clear (also for > automatic filtering, etc). In my concept, the vendor is the major > point of distinction, package comes at second, ... i guess we agree to disagree then. i don't think the current scheme promotes cooperation well. > Well, the term vendor here is defined as a party which provides > packages in certain variants. "UPSTREAM" is a kind of meta vendor, > describing the upstreams. "Vendor" is IMHO more generic, since there > may be vendors who aren't actually a real distro. For example, I > myself don't publish a complete distro, but a foundation for clean > building especially for special embedded devices or appliances. yes, that's why i proposed "downstream" as a replacement. you don't consider yourself downstream? > Yes, that's still an open topic. I've chosen to use one big repo > for easier maintenance, but I'm aware of the problem that the > repo might become very fat some day. my point is not about size, only about "users". > I see two options: > > a) split it off into several ones, eg. on per-package basis > and create a system for (semi-)automatic mass-repo maintenance > (not completely trivial when using free git hosters as mirrors) are you aware that splitting it up will reduce the savings in space? say if they all had byte-identical GPLv3 COPYING files that would be one blob atm and N blobs in split mode. > b) add an selective filtering system. AFIAK current stable git > doesnt provide that yet - I've added an little patch for that: > http://repo.or.cz/w/oss-qm-packages.git/shortlog/refs/heads/METUX.git.master while i'm not sure about this in detail yet, could it be this loop misses to filter the very first entry? + while (walk && (walk->next)) + { + if (_filter_remote_ref(transport, walk->next)) + walk->next = walk->next->next; + else + walk = walk->next; + } + best, sebastian