I write and (sometimes) port software. Now that I came back to Gentoo, I decided to try my luck in ebuilds, starting with one of my libraries. For that, I published my first overlay. It seems to wo...
It broke a bash script that’s going to be gone within a month. The continuous integration stack in Gentoo (which probably doesn’t do quite what you think it does) is basically a stack of bash hacks that causes as many problems as it solves, so it’s being retired. ( relevant gentoo-dev ML thread )
I did not know the internals of said stack. The ML thread is amusing though:
I’m even tired that whenever people add new repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic GitHub clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that happens in these repositories.
I genuinely wonder why the Gentoo dev team even uses Microsoft GitHub for managing its infrastructure. Well, I wonder what will happen after the shutdown.
Github is only used to mirror the main repo (which is on gitweb.gentoo.org). I assume that was done to attract driveby patches and reduce load from Portage git syncs on the Gentoo servers.
It broke a bash script that’s going to be gone within a month. The continuous integration stack in Gentoo (which probably doesn’t do quite what you think it does) is basically a stack of bash hacks that causes as many problems as it solves, so it’s being retired. ( relevant gentoo-dev ML thread )
I did not know the internals of said stack. The ML thread is amusing though:
I genuinely wonder why the Gentoo dev team even uses Microsoft GitHub for managing its infrastructure. Well, I wonder what will happen after the shutdown.
Github is only used to mirror the main repo (which is on gitweb.gentoo.org). I assume that was done to attract driveby patches and reduce load from Portage git syncs on the Gentoo servers.