On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:56 -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > Also keep in mind that PECL extensions are often updated when the API > > in PHP changes drastically, and various people help out making sure > > they build on newer PHP versions. We cannot do that with extensions > > hosted outside of PHP SVN. > > With github it's supposed to be quite easy - fork it, make the change, > issue the pull request. If the author does not merge it within > reasonable time, people can always use your git tree instead. > > Also, can't we use git-svn integration to keep up-to-date copy in pecl > SVN?
The question is who owns the "master" repository. It's nice that I can branch and fix it while the maintainer ignores it and all users use the wrong branch (btw. my mongodb fix from my cleanup commit didn't reach github ...) johannes
