Le 27 mai 2012 03:12, "Jon Bernard" <jbern...@debian.org> a écrit : > > * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > for one of the packages maintained by the pkg-eucalyptus team (euca2ools), the > > upstream source moved to GitHub, and we would like to try to maintain the > > Debian package there as well. > > > > I see that there is already a Debian account on GitHub > > (https://github.com/debian), currently empty. Does it belong to a Developer ? > > Would it be availble to maintain the euca2ools package in ? > > > > I never tried GitHub before. I know it is not Free. The point maintaining a > > Debian package on GitHub would be to easily make pull requests to Upstream. Is > > it something that would be doable from external repositories, for instance > > making a pull request to GitHub from Alioth ? (I mean, the Pull Request > > function of GitHub, not sending an email Upstream saying in plain English that > > they can pull from Alioth). > > I believe a Github pull-request must reference a commit within Github itself. > You could still file an issue linking to an external repository, but I suspect > they're encouraging you to use Github for packaging so they can leverage all of > the utilities that Github provides. You could always use Alioth as the primary > repository and keep an updated mirror on Github just for this sort of thing. > Github tools work with local repo only. Keeping an updated mirror is not a good method for me, it is a painful task and you are never sure of the status....
By the way, you can t use Debian repo to put several repo. a github repo refers to a single git repo. For info, there is a very nice github like free tool named gitlab , but it I a software, not a service. Olivier > -- > Jon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120527011140.GB32538@quintessa > Le 27 mai 2012 03:12, "Jon Bernard" <jbern...@debian.org> a écrit :
