[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Rich Freeman posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:17:22 -0500 as excerpted:

> 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.

Well... not the metadata in the github repo with pregenerated metadata.  
While it's generated for the rsync tree as well, it's not in the gentoo 
infra git repo.

Similarly, I guess there are various user clones/forks of the gentoo tree 
on github, some of which will certainly have stuff that's not yet on 
gentoo infra, as generically, that's rather the point of having a forked 
git repo on github in the first place, no matter what the origin and 
contents of the repo itself.

But I get your point.  In terms of the git history of the primary gentoo 
repo mirror (as opposed to other forks of it) on github, it's identical 
to that of the gentoo infra master, as that's what it syncs from, with 
the purpose being that it /is/ a mirror with no changes from that of 
gentoo's git master repo.

Tho I get Dale's somewhat confused and now belabored point as well.  For 
people who don't know how to do git on their own, as clearly he doesn't, 
the official signaling of what the stopgap changelog alternatives were 
until the scripts were running to regenerate them from git, simply wasn't 
there.  Without that, confusion reigned, and blaming the user for 
confusion in the absence of official signaling really doesn't help the 
situation, either.

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