On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 01:18:02AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 10/21/2019 19:36, Matt Turner wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:42 AM Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Also, another idea is to use a cheap hash function (e.g. fletcher) and > >> just have the mirrors do the hashing behind the scenes. Then we would have > >> the best of both worlds. > > > > It probably would have been better to make these suggestions when the > > GLEP was discussed close to two years ago. > > > > I'm glad that we have ideas for improvements but I worry that we're > > just backseat driving at this point given that the GLEP's now > > implemented. > > Agreed, although, I don't even remember this coming up two years ago. But, > I was tied up with a lot of work-related stress and tasks, so probably just > my memory storage backend not having enough cycles to commit it to...neurons. After looking at this further, I found that the glep was presented to us in Jan 2018 on the dev ml [1].
I checked all council meeting logs and discovered that this was never brought to us formally for approval. It looks like the developers decided to do this as an infrastructure/portage project and because of that they felt like they didn't need a glep. Thanks, William [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/cfc4f8595df2edf9a25ba9ecae2463ba > IMHO, perhaps future GLEPs should have a defined window to implement them > following discussion. Having the discussion, then waiting a few years > before implementing them leads to discussions like this where we're arguing > about the color of the boat after the boat has sailed off into the distance. > > -- > Joshua Kinard > Gentoo/MIPS > ku...@gentoo.org > rsa6144/5C63F4E3F5C6C943 2015-04-27 > 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 > > "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And > our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible > in-between." > > --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic >
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