> On Aug 20, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Fork the repo??
> 
> github expects you to do this, yes. I don't actually recommend it because 
> keeping up to date with the original repo's a PITA (and *not* automated in 
> any way. https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/ is annoyingly 
> manual). You lose the ability to maintain your clone with github's web 
> interface, but that's not much of a loss really.

Don't you also lose the ability to submit pull requests to the original 
repository? I don't see how noncommitters would contribute without having their 
own forks. I guess they could continue sending patches to Trac, but we are 
hoping to move away from that.

vq
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