On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:11:12 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I realize this is a bit more tangential. I just think that infra is > already a huge failure point, so having more stuff on infra actually > makes that failure point more critical. A Gentoo where little is > hosted on stuff we own is much more resilient in the face of > legal/money/etc issues. If Gentoo just becomes some blessed config > files, a website, and SAML then anybody could host the core from their > basement. I agree on the "infra is a big SPOF", just to me, and my experience, "single developers" are a much larger/more volatile SPOF. Like, I can't even keep my own stuff running, so I'm using myself as an example. But I know too many people who fall into this camp. Individuals are much less likely to have the finances and ability to, not only delegate others to work on their platforms, but are unlikely to have the delegation itself delegated. So as fragile as gentoo infra is, ... its still less fragile in the long term view of things than random 3rd parties. ( This is where we cry about the loss of the original gentoo wiki, and how long it took us to replace it, where I'd imagine if it had started out with the full backing of gentoo infra, we'd have lost much less, and we'd have not lost so much of our google juice and 'fountain of arcane knowledge' to Arch )
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