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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 01:22:31
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr_ScpynbXUiT5FmeQT29deNv6gHaVXmP+vBDON9-3kerA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Ralph Sennhauser <sera@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please.
4 >>
5 >> Also, there still should be a bug at b.g.o and git format-patch works
6 >> just fine for that. Maybe it's only github now but how many places is a
7 >> developer supposed to monitor?
8 >
9 > I'm actually a little torn on this one.  I'm fine with keeping the
10 > "master" on Gentoo in the sense that this is where the rsync tree gets
11 > generated.  However, gitbub has a lot of tools like pull requests that
12 > could potentially improve workflow, especially for things like proxy
13 > maintainers.  So, letting those teams work more outside of Gentoo and
14 > just push their changes into Gentoo might make sense.
15
16 So I'm a bit confused. Is GitHub open source?
17
18 >
19 > Perhaps github should be viewed as a widely-shared overlay that gets
20 > automatic updates from the main tree in the master branch (or whatever
21 > we call it).  You can work on a branch in github, get it where you
22 > want it to be, and then push it to Gentoo pretty easily.  When I don't
23 > have access to an upstream repository I often just push a copy to a
24 > fork on Github just to make my own life easier.
25 >
26 > Rich
27 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>