Also it appears that #gentoo-infra is invite only. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Raymond Jennings <[email protected]> wrote:
> Probably should clarify that I wasn't talking about patches. I just > remember the big git migration and was wondering if the syncing process > itself would be moved under anongit.gentoo.org at some point so that we > could avoid relying on github (per social contact thingy) > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 09/19/2016 10:54 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >> > Just curious, but how are gentoo's infra assets organized? >> > >> > Do you guys use VMs on top of hardware machines and whatnot? >> > >> > Reasons for asking: >> > >> > * general curiosity >> > * wondering how a migration to use anongit.gentoo.org >> > <http://anongit.gentoo.org> instead of github would go, particularly if >> > it would help ease pressure on the rsync servers if demand went down >> > - I heard something about a social contract where relying on third >> > parties was a frowny point. >> > >> >> Popping in to #gentoo-infra and chatting with the folks there may get >> you a faster response. >> >> As far as I know, we accept pull requests from the GitHub mirror *or* a >> standard `git format-patch` e-mail. >> >> We do have a social contract[1] which indicates that we will not depend >> on proprietary software. That said, the GitHub mirror is there for >> convenience; I'm betting part of why we use it on the side is because it >> already meshes well with Git to begin with and can be a good 'gateway' >> for new contributors. >> >> We also accept patches on the gentoo-dev ML or (depending on the >> developer) personal e-mails or Bugzilla bugs. You might want to check >> out a few pages on the wiki regarding how we handle contributions, or >> pop in #gentoo-proxy-maint on Freenode. >> >> [1] https://gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.html >> -- >> Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer >> OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net >> fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 >> >> >
