El Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:19:08 +0100 Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > 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, since github is propietory its not an acceptable option for fedora. so i think in this case we need to say no. there are plenty of ways that packagers and developers can work together without the need of this. Dennis _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
