Re: Upstream UsbDk?

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Hi

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:38 PM Yuri Benditovich
<yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:44 PM Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:39 PM Yuri Benditovich
>> <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Due to some historical reasons the UsbDk is maintained at https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk and issues there are under monitoring (according to rumors there were some problem with accounts/rights/etc on the freedesktop).
>> > It looks like there was working mirror at freedesktop but some time ago it stopped working (this might be related to migration of repositories under freedesktop).
>> > Anyway, filing bugs on https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk is currently the best option as we are not subscribed on notifications of freedesktop.
>>
>> Ok, so spice usbdk is a mirror and github is the upstream / homepage.
>> But you do official releases in
>> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/usbdk/ ? This should be
>> clarified in https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/blob/master/README.md,
>> and how to contribute.
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>
> The releases are published on spice-space as well as on github (we usually ask people from spice team to place them on spice-space).

Ok, what is the official place? Both? In general, when you package
software, you need to point to one location.

> Regarding 'how to contribute' - github has 'pull requests' for that.

Which can't be disabled. And with the former spice github mirror, we
explicitely asked not to make PR.

It would help to have a "how to contribute" or "how to report bugs"
etc section in README.

Thanks

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>>
>> I think we should remove the obsolete / unmaintained repositories from
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/, it creates unnecessary
>> confusion.
>>
>> > Best regards,
>> > Yuri
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:53 PM Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Where is UsbDk officially maintained? What is the homepage? Where
>> >> should I file bugs?
>> >>
>> >> Apparently, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/usbdk should be
>> >> the upstream.
>> >>
>> >> But Daynix maintains its own on github
>> >> https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk, which is more recent, and more
>> >> active, looking at issues activity and commits.
>> >>
>> >> But apparently spice was/is the home for release
>> >> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/usbdk/ ?
>> >>
>> >> Can this be clarified?
>> >>
>> >> (fwiw, I think we could do some cleanups in very old/outdated
>> >> repositories from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice: delete them or
>> >> move them to an attic/ subdir?)
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Marc-André Lureau
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>> --
>> Marc-André Lureau



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