On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 08:41 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 23:19 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > thank you for your offer. I would be happy if you could do this. I have > > never worked with GitHub, so I do not know how it is working in detail. > > It's easy and we don't need to pay for it! ;) > > > Could you please write down your ideas, on what branches you want to > > create and how you want to import the “latest sources”. Will you just > > take the latest tarballs or also the one beforehand? > > My plan was to setup v. simple master and staging branches. > > Master would contain the code as of today (which I believe to be stable) > and staging would be a fork of this code to which people would be able > to commit. > > > If someone wants to contribute a patch, how would she/he do this? Send > > the patch to the list and when it is acknowledged by anyone, you will > > push it? Or is there an “incoming” branch where all patches can be > > pushed to and some people are cherry-picking those to a development > > branch? Sorry for all these questions. > > If people have an account on GitHub, they can clone the repo into their > own account, work on it and submit a pull request to pull the code back > into the main staging branch. > > This could then be reviewed by the project leaders and merged where > appropriate into the 'master' branch. > > Master would then be used to generate all debs/rpms/tar.gz/($other) > files for distribution. > > > I would suggest to wait until Monday evening, so people can read up on > > this list when they get back to work and have time to respond. But if it > > is not too much work for you and changes are possible, you could also > > set it up right away and people could comment on that. > > Reading the other threads, I am happy to wait until monday (or even > until after the release of Baikal!) before I do anything - whilst I am > happy to help out the community (and hopefully take some of the weight > away from the devs!) I don't want to cause any more upset than there has > been already! > > Kind regards, > > Matt <snip> Your positive, tangible steps to help are greatly appreciated. I have not used GIT but it sounds like you have proposed a flexible, usable solution. I have no problems with your running with (and no authority to tell you to do so :-) ). Thanks - John
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