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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:12:00
Message-Id: 20120524190800.5b65f8ff@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver by Ian Stakenvicius
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4 On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:32 -0400
5 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
6 > > When the user has their tree up to how they want it, they can
7 > > either send a pull request to another gentoo dev who also has a
8 > > fork on github, or send a link to the commit via some medium ( bug
9 > > tracker ? ) , and some dev can just add that as a remote, and
10 > > merge/cherry-pick the commits they want..
11 >
12 > ...is this something we (as the developer base) WANT non-dev's to be
13 > able to do?? I would expect we'd want the tree to still be treated as
14 > read-only-not-modifyable by the rest of the gentoo/linux community,
15 > otherwise we're going to have a rather large mess on our hands
16 > (multiple forks of the main tree != a uniform main tree + overlays,
17 > the way it does now)
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19 That's only a problem if you don't merge things quickly. Encouraging
20 users to submit git format-patches or merge requests is a great way of
21 reducing developer workload.
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24 Ciaran McCreesh
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