Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi Luis;

thanks for answering.

On 15 August 2013 13:00, Luis Menina <liberforce freeside fr> wrote:
> Le 15/08/2013 12:44, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > > Actually, the fact that we have to ask to opt out is an issue in
> > > itself. We shouldn't even have to. This should have been opt in from
> > > the start. People (maintainers and commiters in this case) shouldn't
> > > have to fight to get back what you have taken away from them.
> >
> > considering that this is a mirroring system of a distributed version
> > control system, I'm puzzled as to what has been lost. you still have
> > all your rights to the software you maintain and commit to, and you
> > still have the right to push your work to more than one repository.
> > care to elaborate a bit more on this?
>
> I'm not a maintainer, but it seems to me that a maintainer may want as
> few entry points for patches as possible, or at least not need to poll
> to find patches. We already have bugzilla, or git.gnome.org. If extra
> clones exist and seem officially endorsed by GNOME, and there's no
> process to send those patches upstream, this clearly means it's up to
> the maintainer to poll for patches on these extra clones.

as I said the last time the idea of a github clone was being floated
around, I don't want to look in multiple places for patches. nor I
want to get pull requests from mirrors I don't maintain directly — and
even then, I basically always say that if a patch is not on Bugzilla,
then it doesn't exist.

the work that Alberto did, though, seem to be clear that: a) the
canonical place for submitting patches is Bugzilla, and b) the GitHub
clones are for mirroring only, so that people can easily create a
public fork on their own GitHub account when they wish to hack on
something. it is, essentially, a read-only mirror. as a maintainer, I
don't have a problem with exposing my code on multiple venues — that's
what I do already every day.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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