All, As many are aware, Infra has been rolling out a new service that allows projects to leverage git repositories dually hosted on github and ASF git repositories, commonly known as gitbox. This effectively allows a project to commit directly to Github and have those commits reflect back on the ASF side.
This has been especially useful to a number of projects, since the github interface gives many options for managing repositories. I've recently also asked infra to open it up to allow any IPMC member to request a gitbox repository for any approved podling that is using gitbox. Podlings I think have found this useful, since many of them come from a github background. They like using the tool and having it available for all to use. So with that said, I want to propose some broad incubator wide policies for gitbox. I'd like to propose that gitbox usage is approved for all podlings, there is nothing to inhibit a podling to request a gitbox repository and as long as a podling feels the need to use gitbox, like they would any other tool that we can integrate with, they should be free to use it without any additional approvals required. So please let me know your thoughts. If I don't hear any -1's I plan to submit an infra ticket early next week to enable the access for all approved podlings. Please note that your first conversion may need some lead time with infra. Regards, John
