From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:17:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8gc26qw.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160814054130.GA13054@thebird.nl> <87lgzzr9ts.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20160815045502.GA16684@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZeF8-0000YS-Dw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:17:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZeF5-0006FJ-6i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:17:22 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZeF4-0006Ev-V0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:17:19 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel David Craven writes: >> I still like the idea of distributed source repos. You may also have >> noticed there was resistance to that idea. > > I thought that the resistance was towards stabilizing an internal api, > which I'm also against. But I'll have to reread the thread more > carefully if you see things differently. I think where there is change > there is resistance, but can understand that based on your previous > experiences you are distrustful of the process and don't want to > commit to doing the work upfront... I don’t think that “resistance” is a fair description of the discussion around that feature. The result was an actual proposal that could be implemented. See this email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01156.html ~~ Ricardo