Re: Official git mirror on github/gitorious?

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

On 30/01/2011 10:34, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:34:13 +0000
> Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 30/01/2011 00:28, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Searching for "openembedded" on both github and gitorious give
>>> quite a few hits:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/search?langOverride=&q=openembedded&repo=&start_value=1&type=Repositories
>>> http://gitorious.org/search?q=openembedded
>>>
>>> Was there a thought to provide official mirrors on both (or one)
>>> services for the purpose of accounting forks?
>>>
>> There is an "official" Ångstrom mirror on gitorious.
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/+angstrom-distribution/angstrom/openembedded
> Yes, seeing it made me think that it would be nice to fork it via site
> means. Is there guarantee of upstream update time for it? Also, even
> then it seems like a 2nd-level fork, not forking a pure OE repo
> specially designed to keep track of offshots.
>
No we just update it sometime or other. But with git it doesn't really
matter I think.

I think you best option is to approach OE with a plan to run such
projects yourself and get the admins to put a crontab in for you which
does the update nightly or something like that.

Graeme