From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576B61381F3 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE7F5E0A62; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2817E0A5F for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F01E33BE52 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.021 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.021 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.569, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.45, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dof1DM6CEh82 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D59933DD04 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UbXnZ-0006i0-EO for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:02:53 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:02:53 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 17:02:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: devmanual moved to github Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <518F7DE2.70703@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT b00f96e /usr/src/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) X-Archives-Salt: 8792c790-be1d-4c47-aa6d-af45a7b18efc X-Archives-Hash: 86b54748a38dda9fa3ee1979da6a053f Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 12 May 2013 09:12:03 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Markos Chandras > wrote: >> The devmanual git repository[1] moved to github[2]. > > No objections to mirroring it there, and accepting pull requests there. > However, would an outright move be contrary to our social contract? > [quoted] > > That said, git itself is FOSS, and moving it back is not difficult > should bad things happen (though any in-progress pull-requests/etc would > be lost). The only thing that isn't FOSS is github itself. Not sure if > others feel strongly about it. To me it depends upon how dependent upon github people actually become. If the primary workflow remains in people's distributed git repos, in git, then more copies "out there" including on github is simply more redundancy, As Linus likes to say, "real men" don't make backups, they post it to the net and let the dozens (in his case, likely tens of thousands, but...) of net copies be their backups. As soon as github going down becomes a problem, however, or as soon as pull requests need to go thru github, then it's a problem, "depending upon" according to the social contract. Arguably, letting github be the primary/only public link is problematic in that very way, since at that point github going down is a problem for those using the public link. OTOH, just having a mirror there and letting people submit pull requests via github as well as directly, shouldn't be a problem. IMO of course. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman