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[65.0.116.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m10sm10427417oex.12.2015.11.03.00.07.11 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:07:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <5636029F.1020304@gentoo.org> <5636FDC6.80500@gmail.com> <5637C0D2.6070708@gmail.com> <20151102200921.72bea3bc@googlemail.com> <5637DB96.9020903@gmail.com> <5637DD6C.8000803@gentoo.org> <56380BED.3000209@gmail.com> <56381C9A.1010106@gmail.com> From: Dale X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56386B2F.80709@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 02:07:11 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0cd9a554-fabc-433a-b0f5-87a148c45d45 X-Archives-Hash: 9356a18323df215a64d9672c96787420 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Dale wrote: >> 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 inf= o >> I needed was on github but not to be found on any Gentoo site at the t= ime. > Anything in /usr/portage that you can find on github is also on > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/, which is a Gentoo site. > > That's kind of the point of git - there are a bazillion tools > available for it and it makes it very easy to clone a full repository > with full history. It also lowers the bar to contribution. > > I get that you're frustrated with the change, and there are a few > others that are as well, but thousands of people use Gentoo, and > generally people only bother to post on lists when they're frustrated. > We can't go into panic mode every time somebody raises a complaint, > and ultimately everybody here is a volunteer. > > The complaints don't really bother me much personally, but I do get > concerned that they'll discourage others from contributing. I can > just ignore threads like these easily enough, but people get > frustrated when they contribute and others just criticize. > What makes it so bad is the confusion as Duncan pointed out. I been following this list for a long time, several years actually. I don't read some threads because they are just devs talking about ebuilds and such and generally that doesn't interest me. That said, I do watch for future changes and was even glad that the change was finally happening.=20 It had been talked about for ages. My understanding was this. If a person didn't want to use the new tools, nothing would change. Us regular users could continue on like we always have. The change was mostly for devs and other people who wanted to submit fixes that make it to the tree and use github etc to do it. When the change first happened, there was several issues that popped up and I watched as the threads explained the situation as best as I could. Anytime a change happens, things are going to pop up. It just seemed to me that after all the years of talking about this change, it would seem that some of the basic things should be worked out before the change. It's not like this new tool set and method of doing things just popped up one day and the switch happened a week later. It had been a work in progress for something close to forever in Gentoo time.=20 Frustrated, yea. Not at first but this has been going on for a while.=20 Right now, I have a package that fails to build and I don't know where the changelogs are for it and which ones would match what I have locally. In the meantime, I'm skipping it. It's not that I can't fix the problem, it's that I can't find information to find out what changed. After all, it compiled fine several times before. Something changed but no clue what, yet.=20 I might also add, the only thing getting updated when I sync in /usr/portage is the ebuilds. The changelogs haven't updated in months. Just keep in mind, I'm not a dev. I'm a user. I post from a user perspective. Something is broke and it affects me and others.=20 Hopefully someone will find a fix, soon I hope and I suspect others hope the same. Dale :-) :-)=20