On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:34:42AM -0700, Duc Dang wrote: >> Hi Olof, >> >> We are debating whether we should setup a company server (where we can >> have full control about storage, user permissions, backup, ...) or >> just use github.com to host our X-Gene kernel tree. >> >> Github seems already provide everything we need for a public source >> tree. Per your experience, what is your (and probably other >> maintainers) reference in git hosting server? Is there any >> inconvenience or difficulty for the maintainers to pull/merge code >> from Github versus from a company server? > > Hosting on github is fine with us in general. We do prefer to get > signed pull requests in particular when they come from other sources > than kernel.org, mostly because there's another third party involved in > hosting the repo and by using signed tags there's less room for anyone > to do bad stuff with the repository without someone noticing. > > If you host on github, please still use native git pull requests and not the > ones that github provides via the web interface. > > Note however, that given the total volume of patches there's no strong need for > you to have a public repo just to send code to us -- we're happy applying > patches at the volumes we're currently looking at. I can imagine other reasons > for why you would like to have a public repo though. > Thanks for the information, Olof. We are setting up a public repo on Github. I will make sure that native git pull request is used. I will need your help in signing the PGP key when the repo is ready. > > Thanks, > > -Olof -- Regards, Duc Dang. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
