From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C154C804FF for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:39:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Apr 2011 21:39:01 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,272,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="914886694" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.88]) ([10.255.13.88]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Apr 2011 21:39:00 -0700 From: Tom Zanussi To: Darren Hart In-Reply-To: <4DB786E3.4080800@linux.intel.com> References: <4DB786E3.4080800@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:39:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1303879148.2593.231.camel@elmorro> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Cc: Yocto Project Subject: Re: Personal git repositories X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:39:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 20:00 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > git.yoctoproject.org hosts a number of different repositories, some of > which host limited user contributions (such as poky-contrib). These > repositories are setup and administered by a yoctoproject.org system admin. > > As our developer base grows, the need for user creatable git trees also > grows. Eventually, *-contrib isn't going to scale, and neither will the > system admin. There are plenty of available places individuals can > create publicly accessible trees (github, kernel.org, or any number of > similar sites). However, I think it would be beneficial for at least > very active developers to be able to create and destroy trees on a whim, > without having to involve the system admin with each event. > > kernel.org provides a git web interface for user created trees. I'd like > to see something similar available at yoctoproject.org in order to > establish single place to go looking for "yocto developer trees". Users > would have to justify their request for a user account and agree to a > terms of use. This has served the Linux kernel community very well. I > think it could do the same for us. > > Note: I am not offering to setup such a service or even say that it's > possible with the current resources. I just wanted to throw the idea out > there and see if others have found a similar gap in the development > environment and if this idea would address that gap. > > Thoughts? > My thinking (I guess - I didn't really think that much about it at the time) when requesting the meta-intel-contrib repo was that repos that could expect to get continual contributions from many people would benefit from having a corresponding -contrib version - so far that's poky-contrib, linux-yocto-*.contrib, and openembedded-core-contrib. To me bsp repos fit the same criteria, but I'm not the one who has to manage it all, so I understand the desire to avoid the proliferation. Seems like the personal repos idea would mitigate the problem... Tom