On Mar 21, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Landon Fuller <land...@macports.org> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > >> >> On Mar 20, 2014, at 19:21, Eric Gallager wrote: >> >>>>> That said, a git/hg mirror on GitHub/ButBucket would definitely be nice. >>>> >>>> Why would that be nicer than the read-only git mirror that Mac OS Forge >>>> already provides here: >>>> >>>> http://www.macosforge.org/post/git-mirrors/ >>>> >>> Try to avoid thinking of it as "nicer than", but instead think of it as "a >>> nice addition to". The nice thing about distributed systems like git is >>> that it makes it easier to mirror a single mirror to multiple places. A git >>> mirror on GitHub could even be the exact same mirror as the one on >>> MacOSForge is. That is similar to how most of the mirrors on the >>> GitHub-Mirrors account work: https://github.com/mirrors (I think I >>> mentioned that earlier in this thread…) >> >> Why is a github mirror of the git repository desirable? Why can’t users who >> want a git version of our repository use the one Mac OS Forge provides? Is >> it just to help users discover the existence of the repository or what? > > In my experience, the alternative is that people republish your code on > GitHub anyway, in which case you have a bunch of disconnected mirrors of your > code under the same name as your project, none of which is obviously > canonical. > > If your code is going to wind up republished to GitHub anyway, having a > mirror at least allows you to control the branding, point back to the > original project, and ensure that it's clear which repositories are > user-uploaded mirrors ("forks"), and which is the canonical mirror. As a follow-up — it looks like Apache is doing some really neat stuff in terms of integrating with GitHub, while maintaining local canonical control of project hosting and resources: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/improved_integration_between_apache_and https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/ -landonf _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
