Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-05-29 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 04:54:24PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 14:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 10:42 +0200, Michal Novotny wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-05-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 14:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 10:42 +0200, Michal Novotny wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > > > > > Looking at the dist-git README further

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-05-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 10:42 +0200, Michal Novotny wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > > > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The > > > first sentence says: "DistGit

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-25 Thread chicago
https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git/commit/6502c87ebdf58661e8ff96fe4a3212b5991f8a44 >I agree that using "Fedora Package Source Repository" >instead of just "Fedora DistGit" is clearer (but also longer >so I, personally, like your Glossary suggestion the best). I think it depends on

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-25 Thread Michal Novotny
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Christopher wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:43 AM Michal Novotny wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-25 Thread Christopher
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:43 AM Michal Novotny wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: >> > >> > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-25 Thread Michal Novotny
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The > > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-25 Thread Michal Novotny
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The > > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: >> Unlike VCSes like CVS and SVN, Git does not handle binaries very well, >> and so they needed to be moved out of the VCS into an external store. > > Actually, the external lookaside cache was

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Neal Gompa wrote: > Unlike VCSes like CVS and SVN, Git does not handle binaries very well, > and so they needed to be moved out of the VCS into an external store. Actually, the external lookaside cache was already used in Fedora in the CVS days. Kevin Kofler

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with additional > data storage". My initial reaction to that is "so, it is basically > just

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 24.3.2018 v 06:59 Christopher napsal(a): >> Can we stop saying "dist-git" in our docs? Nobody knows what that is. >> The service at https://src.fedoraproject.org is clearly branded as "Fedora >> Package Sources". > >

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 24.3.2018 v 06:59 Christopher napsal(a): > Can we stop saying "dist-git" in our docs? Nobody knows what that is. > The service at https://src.fedoraproject.org is clearly branded as "Fedora > Package Sources". BTW dist-git is (for some time) documented quite well:

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Randy Barlow
On 03/24/2018 01:59 AM, Christopher wrote: > If this seems reasonable, I'd be happy to help start editing some of the > wiki pages... but it'd be helpful if everybody maintaining > infrastructure documentation was on the same page. +1 from me. ___ devel

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 05:59:38AM +, Christopher wrote: > Can we stop saying "dist-git" in our docs? Nobody knows what that is. > The service at https://src.fedoraproject.org is clearly branded as "Fedora > Package Sources". > > Using the jargon "dist-git" in our documentation is simply

Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Christopher
Can we stop saying "dist-git" in our docs? Nobody knows what that is. The service at https://src.fedoraproject.org is clearly branded as "Fedora Package Sources". Using the jargon "dist-git" in our documentation is simply confusing, since it doesn't match what the service calls itself, and