This is a mostly inconsequential issue, but the Git migration provides us a chance to make a clean break...
The repository of our ebuilds and the name of the CVS module have been called gentoo-x86 since the start of Gentoo, because it originally was only for x86. Here's the very first ebuild added to CVS [1], Portage v1.1 is also early on [2]. On the rsync side, it was originally called gentoo-x86-portage, and then between the 1.2 and 1.4 release (early 2003), the stages switched to using the name 'gentoo-portage'; as recently as 2010, various mirrors were STILL fetching from the name of gentoo-x86-portage, when we reminded them that they should have switched years ago. All of these names have caused some confusion. Trying to explain to a new user that the Portage tree refers to the collection of ebuilds used by a PMS-compliant package manager (eg Portage) is problematic. To that end, I'd like us to brainstorm names for the new bikeshed^R^R^R^R^R^R^R^R repository, to go live at the time of the Git migration. It will be the single tree that contains what you find today in the gentoo-x86 CVS module; and on rsync as gentoo-x86-portage and gentoo-portage. Ideally, it should be something that works as a relatively unique identifier (Portage is bad as it refers to both the package manager and the tree), and fits easily into discussions, both in-person and online. Questions: 0. What names for the tree/repository. 1. We have some namespaces in Git: proj, dev, priv, data, sites, exp; should the tree be in one of those namespaces, a new namespace, or be without a namespace? git://anongit.gentoo.org/NEW-NAME.git. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mutt/mutt-1.2.5-1.ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date [2] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/files/ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup&sortby=date#l1051 -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
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