On 05/08/18 18:24, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:01 PM Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Part of my frustration is that seemingly "anything open source related >> can be held in Gentoo" and I'm somewhat against that as I feel it >> dilutes the Gentoo mission. We are here to make a distribution, not >> maintain random libraries. If you want to do that feel free; but I >> don't see a need for that work to be associated with Gentoo. >> > Honestly, other than maybe some prestige I don't really get the point > of hosting random software in Gentoo either. These days getting a > repo on github or any of its 47 competitors is a few clicks. You have > zero overhead from a governance standpoint, and a dev can of course > stick ebuilds in the main repository with zero interference. It seems > a lot cleaner from a copyright/etc standpoint as well. > > Even openrc is hosted outside of Gentoo these days, which makes perfect sense. > > With the distro as a whole it is a bit more complex, though honestly > I'd love to see us get to a point where the whole thing can be > SECURELY hosted entirely off-infra as well, even if we still chose to > run our own infra. I just see it as a way to both provide options to > our users and ourselves. For the latter, being able to host anything > on an outside service means that if some component of infra goes down > we could have mirrors already running and pulling from infra, or if > for some reason somebody sues us or roots us or whatever we can pick > up and move without much fuss. > > Running your own wiki/bugzilla/lists/etc was about the only way to do > things in the 90s/etc, but these days there are other options... > "Cloud-based Gentoo" - yeah I see *absolutely no issues* with this ...
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