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Hello, developers. |
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Since the mighty git migration is getting delayed once again, I would |
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like to finally set some temporary measures to at least make Gentoo |
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semi-livable for our users. In particular, I would like to make |
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an official rsync2git mirror that would be updated from our rsync |
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as often as possible, serving both as a base for efficient user syncing |
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and pull requests. |
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While I initially wanted to establish something new, swegener has told |
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me he is running such a thing already for a long time [1]. So what I'd |
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like to do instead is moving swegener's repo to gentoo/ and possibly |
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adding a short doc explaining that it's not the gentoo-x86 repo but |
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just a mirror, how often it's updated and how one can contribute. |
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As for the contribution process, usual pull requests are the way to go. |
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Of course, developers must not ever merge them directly to the repo. |
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Instead, they need to be pulled locally, reviewed and re-committed to |
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CVS. This can be done either by the relevant maintainer (if he cares) |
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or by a dedicated team who proxies between contributors and other |
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developers. |
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The question is: do we need a new team for that, or does one of |
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the existing teams want to handle it? proxy-maintainers? |
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[1]:https://github.com/swegener/gentoo-portage |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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