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Re: [Xen-devel] xenbits GitHub mirror?



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.

Ian.

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