On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/06/2011 08:35 PM, Michael Krufky wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hans de Goede<hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 09/06/2011 06:24 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>>> I've been thinking for a while that perhaps the project should be >>>> renamed (or I considered prepending "kl" onto the front resulting in >>>> it being called "kl-tvtime"). This isn't out of vanity but rather my >>>> concern that the fork will get confused with the original project (for >>>> example, I believe Ubuntu actually already calls their modified tree >>>> tvtime 1.0.3). I'm open to suggestions in this regards. >>> >>> I think that what should be done is contact the debian / ubuntu >>> maintainers, >>> get any interesting fixes they have which the kl version misses merged, >>> and then just declare the kl version as being the new official upstream >>> (with the blessing of the debian / ubuntu guys, and if possible also >>> with the blessing of the original authors). >>> >>> This would require kl git to be open to others for pushing, or we >>> could move the tree to git.linuxtv.org (which I assume may be >>> easier then for you to make the necessary changes to give >>> others push rights on kl.org). >> >> Hans, >> >> Everybody is welcome to contribute to open source projects, but global >> contribution doesn't mean that a given server be opened up to commits >> by the general public. > > I didn't write open to commits by the general public, now did I? I wrote > open to commits by others. For most upstream projects it is quite normal > that several people have push rights to the master tree. This actually > is quite a good idea, as it avoids adding a SPOF into the chain. It > means development can continue if one of the maintainers is on vacation > for a a few weeks, or just having a period in his/her life where he > is too busy to actively contribute to a spare time project. Hans, Now I understand -- that's completely reasonable. It looks like Devin is happy having the tree hosted on linuxtv.org anyway, so no worries :-) Sorry for the misunderstanding. Best Regards, Mike Krufky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
