Hello members of the Board,
I would like to petition the Board to endorse
https://github.com/fedoraproject as a secondary outlet of hosted code.
Some projects that go into Fedora have their upstream hosted on GitHub.
To get these projects into Fedora not only spec files need to be
created, in most cases patches need to be created as well. While these
patches themselves are available in the corresponding rpm git repo
(pkgs.fedoraproject.org) they are not easily usable for upstream
developers. (And in most cases "hand"-crafted, instead of maintained in
a real branch.) An upstream developer is used to work on a git branch.
Whilst it is possible to maintain such a git branch at fedorahosted.org
it would suffer from a lack of integration with the upstream branch
hosted on GitHub itself.
Note that this petition does not ask for alleviation of hosting on
fedorahosted.org should that be required. In that case
https://github.com/fedoraproject would serve as a mirror of
fedorahosted.org.
I do say that Fedora should endorse and administrate the account known
as fedoraproject on GitHub for the sole purpose of providing an extra
outlet of Fedora branches related to GitHub hosted upstream projects.
Note that I'm completely ignorant of actual possibilities and I hereby
apologize for said ignorance.
Thanks in advance,
Carlo
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