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

["Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Rich Freeman wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 PM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Scripts no one can read except the team (even after being asked to
>> publish them) is by definition propriety software. It was used to
>> develop and package emul-linux-x86-* packages until this very day.
>>
>> No one cared, at any time. I just find this a bit confusing, because of
>> the sudden bikeshed about github which IS already widely used in gentoo
>> (whether everyone likes it or not).
>
> I'm not sure how many people noticed - certainly nobody made a big
> complaint about it.  Now that you bring it up I agree that this should
> be corrected, though at least in this case it is a bit of a moot point
> as those packages are largely obsolete now.

Some of the scripts used are hosted in several public repositories (like 
the qa-scripts). Almost all of the others are part of the infra 
configuration repositories.
We've shared some of the scripts already and I'm sure all of us would 
prefer to share all the others - we just need to go over them and make 
sure we split any authentication out of them.

> An area that always bothered me was stage3 building, but I think our
> catalyst docs have improved.  I don't know if following the wiki guide
> leads to a stage3 identical to our published one or not, but if not
> that would be an example of a similar situation that should be fixed.

Rich, please make an effort to ask the correct people before making such 
comments that can be misread as meaning that the RelEng team is building 
stages "in secret" or questioning how anyone can be certain about what is 
built.
Both the catalyst repository[1] containing catalyst code and the releng 
repository[2] containing both the official stages and helper scripts  used 
for stage building are available through gogo.

  [1] - git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git
  [2] - git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git

Regards,
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Gentoo Developer