Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

On 10/09/2015 01:56 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> Well let's think about this.  If github went away, or we needed to part
> ways with github, what we would we want to keep from their site?

It is more likely that our infra servers go down or break than github.
From a reliability standpoint, our infra servers clearly lose.

> An
> example is all the discussion on "The Crystal Programming Language" pull
> #105.  That discussion should have happened on our bugzilla so we have
> that history on our own infra.  

I don't see why that discussion should have happened on bugzilla.
Reviews on bugzilla are painful and broken. And it's not a global matter.

I can and will review (new) ebuilds anywhere I please, including private
mails from my proxied maintainers (some use that workflow) or mails to
project aliases (which are only semi-public), although it's preferred
that the information is public. Information on who has reviewed the
ebuild are supposed to go into the git merge commit message, so you can
always contact the reviewer.

> Can we get the gentoo-bot to organize email notifications in such
> a way that we can easily search and read histories by issues and/or
> pull requests?

The gentoo-bot already gets those mail notifications (I guess? can
mgorny confirm?), so the data would already be there, just needs to be
processed. But that's not something that needs to happen overnight,
since there is no data loss imminent.