Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought Gentoo was not depending on git/github either.
> Take 5min and read the wikipedia articles on both git and github, please.
>
> Gentoo is not going to depend on github, because of the social contract issues.
>
> Gentoo absolutely does depend on git, and it is 100% FOSS.
>
> If these statements seem contradictory, you really need to look up a
> video on git 101/etc.  To be fair, I don't think you can truly use git
> without first groking it, and you won't accomplish that until you
> understand its data model.  Git is a terrific data model wrapped in a
> mediocre command line utility.
>

Based on Robin's earlier post, it seems this is going to be fixed, how
and when may still be open tho.  The reason github entered into this is
not because I am confusing the two but because very shortly after this
change, I had to go to the github website to find out what changed with
some packages because I was having upgrade issues.  That is what made me
mention github.  If I have to go to github to get info about a Gentoo
package and it isn't available on a Gentoo site, that sounds fishy.  I
also recall that at that time, package.gentoo.org was not updating
either.  That is why a link was posted for me to use github instead.  I
do realize and understand that git and github are two different things
but it seems they can work together as well.  It ended up that the info
I needed was on github but not to be found on any Gentoo site at the time. 

My other issue is how these two match up time wise.  I synced the tree
yesterday.  If I go to github or even packages.gentoo.org to see a
changelog, that info may be out of date.  That is why some of us want
them to be done at the same time and stored locally.  Changes that were
made overnight and today don't apply to me because my tree is older than
that.  If I sync then run to the website, it may be more relevant but it
can't be guaranteed that it is. 

Dale

:-)