Re: [Need Input] (informal) Automotive PV drivers subproject request

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

On 09/06/2014 14:12, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [Need Input] (informal) Automotive PV drivers subproject request"):
>> As an aside,
>>
>> it looks to me as if we were close enough to draft a subproject proposal
>> on the wiki. As far I can see we agreed on
>> * we need a subproject
> I would just like to quibble with your pathnames.  I think that the
> subproject should have its own subdirectory, which should contain all
> of its repos.
I don't mind. I missed the convention you outlined

> So:
>
>> * we need an official xenbits.org/pvdrivers.git repo; it would also come
>> with its own mailing list if desired
>> * in addition we need integration branches for xen.git, linux.git,
>> pvdrivers.git - it appears that the consensus here is that we use the
>> same pattern as elsewhere
> Rather, we should have:
>
>    xenbits.xen.org/automotive/pvdrivers.git
>    xenbits.xen.org/automotive/linux.git
>    xenbits.xen.org/automotive/xen.git
>    etc.
>
> (FSVO "automotive"; I currently have no opinion about the project
> name.)
That would make sense. So we follow the convention 
xenbits.xen.org/<subproject name>/pvdrivers.git

However, if we allowed linux.git and xen.git in 
xenbits.xen.org/<subproject name>, it does increase the risk of creating 
a permanent fork (i.e. the main concerns raised by IanC, Stefano, etc.)

> Cf xenbits.xen.org/xenclient/, xenbits.xen.org/kemari/,
> xenbits.xen.org/xcp/, xenbits.xen.org/xenrt-citrix/ ...
>
>
> NB these are mostly git url fragments, not http url fragments.  So eg
> "xenbits.xen.org/xenrt-citrix/" contains "xenrt.git" which is
> accessible via
>    git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/xenrt-citrix/xenrt.git
> (and also via the gitweb index etc.)
>
> If it is helpful there is no technical reason why it would be
> difficult to provide a subproject with a webtree on xenbits that would
> be accessible via http://xenbits.xen.org/subproject/.  But we don't
> want xenbits to be used for general-purpose web hosting.
>
> AIUI this particular subproject doesn't have a requirement at this
> stage for a separate web hosting setup.
I wasn't aware of it. And we don't need it

>> (aka the location for the staging branch is in xenbits.org/people).
>> Maybe with some mods, e.g. people/automotive/* instead of people/* -
>> although this is not yet finally agreed. There are still differing
>> opinions on naming.
> I agree with Ian Campbell that we do not want subproject names in
> people/.  That is strictly for human beings, and contains only
> "unofficial" repos.
OK.

Regards
Lars