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 1SXsNb-0006bG-5l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 11:08:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92CFDE088A; Fri, 25 May 2012 11:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5635E060D for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 11:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv5 with SMTP id v5so818388ggn.40 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 04:07:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=j0BIW2YaGXyfAe8Ih4OVeL933DarWOarfzZfVDqDu+Y=; b=pcIvSfnuWTNxiNZF+cDxc4nJ8zclOXdSp0pzamqhjmGe0qKAEc9c/hf/cm34Qe+fJu 561IvVw2djoGGErR7Q41oxaV28JORRshvUhfulDLC/+gOmrP28qCudKVEEZcf0WWan9I W5PEvzQ7ob/Bx+6DUVqitbMv2oO9yVseu/HJWmz+WAjT9KeJhcKUp5k2ZKH6sADqgrdf +qEt6lYRsJCvztdhytR/XtD1LVofKtwzvnwv02j+TNHueCkNrKrHGB85A6aiEyBKLIwf ztX5YGuy+FFjGdLBhJIuuWQEV6jizYNbdyZ2fWqZ8R7HR7JKoEsy2WrqunwTwkVusAwj iA/g== 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 Received: by 10.50.104.170 with SMTP id gf10mr1984670igb.52.1337944049514; Fri, 25 May 2012 04:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.231.38.199 with HTTP; Fri, 25 May 2012 04:07:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FBCDB3D.1070009@gentoo.org> <1473095.PKeReGjyol@smorgbox> <4FBD5B42.7090809@gentoo.org> <20120524164002.50092941@pomiocik.lan> <20120524170224.728c194e@sera-17.lan> <20415.8889.294499.359094@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:07:28 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qkBx5dB7q44cN70Wun0F8uqx1Is Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmiTx1np08ER7VHMou7+5385nNTvlYu2Kgtg22no4xmoWfFv3ZItYVT5yg/OQakFajyMNnt X-Archives-Salt: 9ca3fcac-2e41-478e-af53-fde12a8ece9b X-Archives-Hash: ed573e826ed46959093cadca037e0f0a On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Kent Fredric wrote= : > On 25 May 2012 18:12, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> >> Actually, Alec's question is not so far-fetched. The Gentoo Social >> Contract says that Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software >> unless it is open source. >> > > Though in the case of github, gentoo is not "depending upon it". > Github could die in a ball of fire, and it wouldn't change the core > development, it would only change the development for the people who > elected to use github. This thread has had many suggestions about how things might be laid out. For instance I think it would be against our social contract to host the master git tree on github as someone suggested earlier in the thread. My intent was mostly to keep the contract in mind when coming up with such solutions. > > Anyone can use any git platform that competes with github, be it > bitbucket, gitorious, or a private git server they created. > > Github is just a convenient go-to service for many. > > -- > Kent > > perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2=A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \= $_ * 3, > 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" > > http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz >