From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [206.46.173.9] (helo=vms173009pub.verizon.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LNWJi-0008Ip-Hz for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:47:42 +0100 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([71.255.246.155]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0KDI00K1JW6J5Y90@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:20:50 -0600 (CST) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B60836B83B5; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:25:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:25:26 -0500 From: Denys Dmytriyenko In-reply-to: To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20090115172526.GD15943@denix.org> MIME-version: 1.0 References: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:47:42 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > Hi, > > There are a lot of OE based projects around that use an overlay to manage > their tweaks (e.g. gumstix, openpandora, arago), which has pros and cons. A > while ago I was talking to John Willis (of open2x and openpandora fame) and > he liked the idea of mirroring the pandora overlay on git.oe.net to make it > more visible and to make it easier for OE developers to work on making > pieces of it upstream safe. > I think a git mirror of poky would fall in this category as well. > > What do you think of this? Will those be read-only mirrors or read-writeable branches/forks? -- Denys