Re: [gentoo-project] Official rsync->git mirror & 'Git mirror' project announcement

[Seemant Kulleen]

Congratulations!  This is huge!  Michal and Sven and everyone who did this
== awesome ppl

Cheers!
Seemant

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On Jan 26, 2015 12:12 PM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
>
> I have the pleasure to announce that the official rsync2git mirror is
> up and running [1] thanks to Sven Wegener. It is updated from rsync
> every 30 minutes, and can be used both to sync your local Gentoo
> installs and to submit improvements via pull requests (see README [2]
> for some details).
>
> At the same time, I have established the 'Git Mirror' [3] project which
> welcomes developers willing to help reviewing the pull requests
> and helping those improvements reach package maintainers.
>
> For users, this means that we now have a fairly efficient syncing
> method and a pull request-based workflow for submitting fixes.
> The auto-synced repository can also make proxy-maint workflow easier.
>
> For developers, this either means:
>
> a. if you want to help us, join the team, watch the pull requests.
> CC maintainers when appropriate, review, even work towards merging
> the changes with approval of the maintainers,
>
> b. if you want to support git users, just wait till we CC you and then
> review, help, merge :),
>
> c. if you don't want to support git users, just ignore the repo. We'll
> bother you directly after the changes are reviewed and ready :).
>
> [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror
> [2]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror#README
> [3]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Git_mirror
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>