Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> That depends on where the primary repository of the project lies.
> Whether it is primary on gentoo infra or if GitHub is de-facto primary
> repository. If the latter it is a problem.
>

Well, as far as I'm concerned, the primary repository for Gentoo is
the one on my PC, because that is the only one I actually directly
commit to.  For the typical user, the primary repository is whatever
tarball they last webrsync'ed from, since that is the one containing
all the bugs they're currently suffering through.  The whole concept
of a "primary repository" is somewhat diminished these days.  :)

But, sure, in general I'd prefer if something hosted by infra is
up-to-date.  One of the challenges is that infra is only staffed to do
so much, and it seems like everybody wants to do far more.  It doesn't
help that a lot of the fancier stuff tends to be harder to maintain on
servers, although I'm not sure if that is because we tend to update
them in place (I am not a professional sysadmin, but the ones I talk
to seem to avoid doing that much these days).

-- 
Rich