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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Ralph Sennhauser <sera@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please. |
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>> Also, there still should be a bug at b.g.o and git format-patch works |
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>> just fine for that. Maybe it's only github now but how many places is a |
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>> developer supposed to monitor? |
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> I'm actually a little torn on this one. I'm fine with keeping the |
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> "master" on Gentoo in the sense that this is where the rsync tree gets |
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> generated. However, gitbub has a lot of tools like pull requests that |
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> could potentially improve workflow, especially for things like proxy |
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> maintainers. So, letting those teams work more outside of Gentoo and |
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> just push their changes into Gentoo might make sense. |
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So I'm a bit confused. Is GitHub open source? |
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> Perhaps github should be viewed as a widely-shared overlay that gets |
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> automatic updates from the main tree in the master branch (or whatever |
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> we call it). You can work on a branch in github, get it where you |
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> want it to be, and then push it to Gentoo pretty easily. When I don't |
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> have access to an upstream repository I often just push a copy to a |
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> fork on Github just to make my own life easier. |
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> Rich |
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