Github has a feature called pull requests that an Apache Flex Git repo does not.
https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests It's essentially a code review process layer on top of git. It allows us to fork Apache Flex… make modifications then send a pull request to the main apache repo. That pull request also creates a .patch file that can be attached to a JIRA ticket or applied to a local writable Apache Flex Git repo via git-am. On Aug 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Alex Harui wrote: >> I am sorry, but why would we want to retire the GitHub mirror? Right now, >> it is read-only. If we leave it like that, the community can at least fork >> the projects and work on it. >> > Why couldn't the community make forks/branches from the official Apache Flex > Git repo? It would save a step, prevent issues from mirror delays, reduce > bandwidth on Apache infra. Would we have to make mirror requests of Infra > for every branch in GBM? That would also be painful.
