From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com (ausxippc101.us.dell.com [143.166.85.207]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018C84C80BCF for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:46:56 -0600 (CST) X-Loopcount0: from 10.210.138.63 Message-ID: <4CD9C14F.7010902@dell.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:46:55 -0600 From: Ryan D Phillips User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denys Dmytriyenko References: <017987BD9AB15445B9968338EC889BB1082088F12E@AUSX7MCPS301.AMER.DELL.COM> <4CD98D69.5020003@intel.com> <20101109183140.GC8761@denix.org> In-Reply-To: <20101109183140.GC8761@denix.org> Cc: "poky@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:46:57 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/9/2010 12:31 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:05:29AM -0800, Scott Garman wrote: >> On 11/09/2010 08:31 AM, Ryan_D_Phillips@Dell.com wrote: >>> Good Day! >>> >>> My name is Ryan Phillips (irc: rphillips), a former Gentoo Linux >>> Developer, currently a software developer architecting an embedded >>> firmware solution on OE for my employer. With the release of Yocto, >>> we are extremely interested in trying it out and possibly >>> contributing to the project. My cohort working with me is Sean Hudson >>> (irc: darknighte), and is someone who you may see contributions from >>> as well. >>> >>> A major stumbling block we must work around is the restrictive >>> firewall and git checkouts. We have found out the git-http-backend >>> works extremely well, and are requesting this support on >>> git.pokylinux.org. We suspect other people within larger corporations >>> would have a similar problem, and by adding this support would help >>> the community at large. >>> > Hmm. I didn't mean to start a firestorm. Read only git-http-backend access is something that we would find useful. As an alternative, we can create repo.or.cz mirrors, but I'm not all that keen on this. -ryan