On Thursday, May 24, 2012 01:52:32 PM Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 24/05/12 01:13 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 25 May 2012 03:02, Ralph Sennhauser <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:40:02 +0200 Michał Górny > >> > >> <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>> d) Talk with github folks to add our repo as 'mirror'. > >> > >> Can we keep the master on Gentoo hardware please. > > > > Definitely. But having a mirror on github will increase > > forkability, and will make it much faster for people to get started > > on contribution. > > > > When the user has their tree up to how they want it, they can > > either send a pull request to another gentoo dev who also has a > > fork on github, or send a link to the commit via some medium ( bug > > tracker ? ) , and some dev can just add that as a remote, and > > merge/cherry-pick the commits they want.. > > ...is this something we (as the developer base) WANT non-dev's to be > able to do?? I would expect we'd want the tree to still be treated as > read-only-not-modifyable by the rest of the gentoo/linux community,
Of course it's read only - just like all other public repositories. You don't want to accept improvments? I don't understand this. > otherwise we're going to have a rather large mess on our hands > (multiple forks of the main tree != a uniform main tree + overlays, > the way it does now) Forking happens when it's hard to contribute. You even want to make overlays difficult? The only real mechanism Gentoo provides for user extensibility? -- Dan Douglas
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