Any further thoughts from any one for or against? 

Or any objections to move forward to make a INFRA request to make this change? 

Hi Marcus,

> On May 23, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Christie, Marcus Aaron <machr...@iu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 23, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org 
>> <mailto:sma...@apache.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes and No. From a git (rather git pubsub) perspective yes both the repos 
>> allow writes and they synchronize with post commit hooks. But we should 
>> avoid writing to both since there could be code conflicts and the commits 
>> (reactionary to hooks) could fail which will need manual intervention to 
>> clear the clutter. So its better to pick one repo as the primary write and 
>> the other one only when primary one is unavailable. 
>> 
> 
> Can we turn off writes to the apache repo so that it’s not possible for there 
> to be conflicts?

I think that may not be desirable and ASF might not want to fully depend on a 
third party commercial service as the only write only repo. We can watch the 
commits and slowly educate all committers to only use GitHub as the write 
(except when it is down).

Suresh

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcus

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