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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo now has a Github "organization"
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:04:08
Message-Id: 4FBA78F9.8090904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo now has a Github "organization" by Rich Freeman
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4 On 05/21/2012 04:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Ultrabug <ultrabug@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 >> It also may be interesting to use the github workflow with
8 >> proxy-maintainers (which might also make the proxy-maintainers
9 >> project even more visible) ?
10 >>
11 >
12 > Tend to agree, although a big liability will be the fact that
13 > we're still not on git ourselves. So, to be useful that github
14 > tree would to get regular cvs updates incorporated, and then any
15 > content would need to be manually moved over. The trees would be
16 > constantly slightly out of sync - what happens if somebody commits
17 > a fix without a revbump to git and then the cvs tree refreshes git
18 > not showing the change, and so on?
19 >
20 > I guess for proxy-maintained packages we could just consider the
21 > git-tree "official" and do all forward work there without
22 > publishing cvs changes automatically. Then cvs updates are just
23 > manual copies when things are good in the git tree. However, the
24 > second somebody comes along with some library package move or other
25 > tree-wide change they're going to make things out of sync unless
26 > they know to go update git.
27 >
28 > Seems like overlays are the best candidate for a place to start
29 > since they largely use git already. Maybe this is just one more
30 > reason to get the main tree onto git as well...
31 >
32 > Rich
33 >
34 It will be a pain from our (proxy-maint) side to use git workflow on a
35 cvs tree. Speaking of myself I am not interested in supporting this
36 "mixed" kind of collaboration and frankly I see no viable way for
37 someone to do that in the long term.
38
39 - --
40 Regards,
41 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo now has a Github "organization" Matthew Summers <quantumsummers@g.o>