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On Thursday, May 24, 2012 01:52:32 PM Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 24/05/12 01:13 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > On 25 May 2012 03:02, Ralph Sennhauser <sera@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:40:02 +0200 Michał Górny |
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> >> |
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> >> <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>> d) Talk with github folks to add our repo as 'mirror'. |
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> >> Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please. |
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> > Definitely. But having a mirror on github will increase |
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> > forkability, and will make it much faster for people to get started |
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> > on contribution. |
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> > When the user has their tree up to how they want it, they can |
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> > either send a pull request to another gentoo dev who also has a |
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> > fork on github, or send a link to the commit via some medium ( bug |
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> > tracker ? ) , and some dev can just add that as a remote, and |
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> > merge/cherry-pick the commits they want.. |
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> ...is this something we (as the developer base) WANT non-dev's to be |
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> able to do?? I would expect we'd want the tree to still be treated as |
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> read-only-not-modifyable by the rest of the gentoo/linux community, |
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Of course it's read only - just like all other public repositories. You don't |
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want to accept improvments? I don't understand this. |
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> otherwise we're going to have a rather large mess on our hands |
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> (multiple forks of the main tree != a uniform main tree + overlays, |
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> the way it does now) |
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Forking happens when it's hard to contribute. You even want to make overlays |
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difficult? The only real mechanism Gentoo provides for user extensibility? |
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Dan Douglas |