On 27/01/16 09:45, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:26 -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote: >> On 1/26/16 10:55 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 14:51 -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>>> All, >>>> >>>> Now I'll start off by saying that "no" is a perfectly acceptable answer >>>> to this suggestion. Basically I remember at the Xen Developer Summit a >>>> few people mentioned it being nice if people provided a git tree where >>>> their branches were available for testing. I was just thinking it might >>>> be easier for third parties to do that if there was an official Xen >>>> Project mirror of the main repos on xenbits on GitHub and people could >>>> fork that repo and make their branch available. Just a thought. >>> If forking the repo significantly easier than just creating an empty one of >>> your own and pushing to it? Is the parent repo "important" in some way in >>> the GH world? (Given that, as George says, we are unlikely to accept >>> contributions via GH pull requests etc). >>> >>> Ian. >>> >> Its not easier or different. I just remembered from the Xen Developer >> Summit that a few people complained that a lot of the patch series >> posted to the ML really should be available as a repo because they were >> quite large and hard to review. I see this comment come up over and over >> on the ML myself as well so I was just trying to lower the barriers to >> people doing that. I know the reason people don't isn't technical so >> this isn't really a technical solution but I figured this is more a >> social thing. GitHub has the ability to mark a repo as a mirror and not >> allow pull requests or issues, which is what I would recommend. I'm just >> looking at improving the community aspect. I could create an >> organization called "xen-mirror" and get it setup and turn it over to >> the Xen Project. >> >> Again, I'm fine with an answer of "no" here. Just trying to pitch out >> ideas to solve what some see as an irritation. > I don't think you need anybodies permission to do this if you think it will > be valuable.
If there is going to be an official github mirror, then it should be part of github.com/xen-project rather than hosted by a random developer. FWIW, I am +1 for setting up infrastructure like this, but lets do it properly. Lars: Thoughts? ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel