On IRC, someone brought up another point: github is not opensource. The Board hasn't yet written down an exact policy regarding using opensource for third party resources but I suspect if we drafted a policy and held a vote it would look something like this at the moment: "When using third party services, we should use open source alternatives when they are available." So another question to be considered is whether github provides a service that isn't available from other, open source third-parties. -Toshio On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/01/2012 04:58 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> However even if a packager can't get upstream commit access they can >>> still >>> keep a local checkout of the upstream repo and use that for both creating >>> patches for Fedora and for sending patches back upstream (either having >>> thir own git server or emailing patches created using git). >> >> I've been working with several github projects and I believe the >> preferred method (if the patches are upstreamable) is to create a fork >> of the github project, create a branch in your fork, and then do a >> pull request to get upstream to evaluate your patch. It's a little >> convoluted, especially if you haven't acclimated to the way git works, >> but it does work well. >> >> Richard >> _______________________________________________ >> advisory-board mailing list >> advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board > > > True. > > Non-upstreamable patches like > https://github.com/fedoraproject/jboss-as/commit/7aa8fee7fb6b50270dc8b95be9c1ba08e579b3ad > however still require collaboration. > Both in terms of evaluating functional loss by upstream developers (in this > case it's a minor thing) and further enhancement by packagers. > > Carlo > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
