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From: My Th <rei4dan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Github repo is Live & Kicking
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:02:53
Message-Id: CAJEeDTfDrxwwkJSosd86gOg5knizbg6hPn_WeHMXPxJeUiUdpg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Github repo is Live & Kicking by Christoph Junghans
1 2012/4/4 Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o>:
2 > 2012/4/4 Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com>:
3 >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:15:41 +0100
4 >> Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@g.o> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On 03/15/2012 11:03 AM, Oliver Borm wrote:
7 >>> > Hi,
8 >>> >
9 >>> > what are with users that only have write access to the original overlay?
10 >>> > Do they need a github account in order to further contribute to the sci
11 >>> > overlay?
12 >>> It's not mandatory so they don't need to, though I've strongly encourage
13 >>> to do so.
14 >>> > What will happen if they push their changes just to g.o.g ?
15 >>> When a person with access to both repos does git pull --all, it pull
16 >>> changes from both, and during push --all it will be naturally migrated
17 >>> to github. Of course it also works the other way around. As far as my
18 >>> short experience with that workflow goes it's almost indistinguishable
19 >>> to what we had so far. Only pull/push time is slightly longer
20 >>
21 >> It might be worth adding a "stable" branch to the
22 >> repository. Goal there is that changes to into the
23 >> trunk and ones found to work or that pass more tests
24 >> can get selectively merged into the stable branch.
25 >>
26 >> Makes it easeir to catch minor bugs after a commit.
27 > IMO, stable stuff should go in the default portage tree (gx86). I am
28 > against having too many layers of "stable".
29 >
30 > Christoph
31
32 I second that. For stable is the main tree.
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35 Reinis