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Subject: Re: [RFC] Overlay hosting and mirroring on git.oe.net
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On 15-01-09 18:25, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 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?

That'd be for the overlay owner(s) to decide.

regards,

Koen