On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:00 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > git.yoctoproject.org hosts a number of different repositories, some of > which host limited user contributions (such as poky-contrib). These > repositories are setup and administered by a yoctoproject.org system admin. > > As our developer base grows, the need for user creatable git trees also > grows. Eventually, *-contrib isn't going to scale, and neither will the > system admin. There are plenty of available places individuals can > create publicly accessible trees (github, kernel.org, or any number of > similar sites). However, I think it would be beneficial for at least > very active developers to be able to create and destroy trees on a whim, > without having to involve the system admin with each event. > > kernel.org provides a git web interface for user created trees. I'd like > to see something similar available at yoctoproject.org in order to > establish single place to go looking for "yocto developer trees". Users > would have to justify their request for a user account and agree to a > terms of use. This has served the Linux kernel community very well. I > think it could do the same for us. > > Note: I am not offering to setup such a service or even say that it's > possible with the current resources. I just wanted to throw the idea out > there and see if others have found a similar gap in the development > environment and if this idea would address that gap. > > Thoughts? >
My thinking (I guess - I didn't really think that much about it at the time) when requesting the meta-intel-contrib repo was that repos that could expect to get continual contributions from many people would benefit from having a corresponding -contrib version - so far that's poky-contrib, linux-yocto-*.contrib, and openembedded-core-contrib. To me bsp repos fit the same criteria, but I'm not the one who has to manage it all, so I understand the desire to avoid the proliferation. Seems like the personal repos idea would mitigate the problem... Tom _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
