From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929F14C804FF for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:22:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p3R3MwGc013222 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bruce-ashfields-macbook.local (128.224.22.117) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:22:58 -0700 Message-ID: <4DB78C10.1030503@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:22:56 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart References: <4DB786E3.4080800@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4DB786E3.4080800@linux.intel.com> 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 03:23:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11-04-26 11:00 PM, 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? Only a 2nd vote for something like this. I've had a need for this on several occasions, and often I'd like to get something out, and then slot it into a more "official" location later. My current location for the 2.6.39-yocto kernel on my kernel.org account sort of says it all :) Cheers, Bruce >