Gentoo Archives: gentoo-science

From: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] moving the science overlay to github?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:02:41
Message-Id: CANgp9kyuYbgriVsKjFj6f4behW+id=eXYzANGhBX9q09RTuPzw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] moving the science overlay to github? by Alexey Shvetsov
1 2012/2/7 Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o>:
2 > fbissey@××××××××××××.nz писал 2012-02-07 23:52:
3 >
4 >> Quoting Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@g.o>:
5 >>
6 >>> Hi,
7 >>>
8 >>> We are contemplating the idea of switching the official science overlay
9 >>> to an external repository such as github. Here are some of the
10 >>> advantages we would like to
11 >>> get:
12 >>> 1. easier to contribute
13 >>> 2. specific issue tracker
14 >>> 3. wiki
15 >>>
16 >> Other people have made useful comments already. The only point that I
17 >> think
18 >> is interesting about github is the possibility to clone the overlay and
19 >> have
20 >> pull requests.
21 >> Effectively that means people can contribute without ever getting infra
22 >> involved and an external contributor can send a pull request even if they
23 >> are
24 >> not a member of the github science team.
25 > Actualy you can send pull request even now =) Its git. See for example linux
26 > kernel related work
27 I like the idea of making contributions as easy as possible!
28
29 Actually we could test github for a while and leave the default
30 overlay on gentoo and merge every XXX hrs.
31
32 --
33 Christoph Junghans
34 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/