Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2021-04-11

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 8:03 AM Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> On 4/8/21 5:09 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 21:51 Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org
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> >     Why hasn't this been switched yet?
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> > We don't have the infrastructure to support this yet. E.g. if we told
> > people to do it our anon git service would likely fall over and stop
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> I like the "yet" part. Meantime, default to Github/gentoo-mirror?

It's admittedly a grey area here. We use CDNs for various web
components (packages.gentoo.org for example) and we use a CDN for
distfiles.gentoo.org. Is Github simply a CDN for gentoo.git? Its an
open question we have discussed on the gentoo-nfp list.

In general I'm not really sold on the benefits of git as a replication
protocol; while I dislike running a global rsync network the
maintenance of the network is basically nil from infra's end and so I
don't feel significant pressure to move to git. Could you perhaps
articulate why you think it's important for clients to move to git?

-A

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> One thing I was also thinking, how heavy is git as a package compared to
> rsync in stage3. But to me, doesn't sound heavier at all, especially if
> it's built with a lot of USE flags off.
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> -- juippis
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