On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Ralph Sennhauser <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please. >> >> Also, there still should be a bug at b.g.o and git format-patch works >> just fine for that. Maybe it's only github now but how many places is a >> developer supposed to monitor? > > I'm actually a little torn on this one. I'm fine with keeping the > "master" on Gentoo in the sense that this is where the rsync tree gets > generated. However, gitbub has a lot of tools like pull requests that > could potentially improve workflow, especially for things like proxy > maintainers. So, letting those teams work more outside of Gentoo and > just push their changes into Gentoo might make sense.
So I'm a bit confused. Is GitHub open source? > > Perhaps github should be viewed as a widely-shared overlay that gets > automatic updates from the main tree in the master branch (or whatever > we call it). You can work on a branch in github, get it where you > want it to be, and then push it to Gentoo pretty easily. When I don't > have access to an upstream repository I often just push a copy to a > fork on Github just to make my own life easier. > > Rich >
