[Buildroot] Write Access to buildroot?

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

 Ulf> In the openembedded project all the developers have
 Ulf> write access to the development tree and can create
 Ulf> their own branches within the tree.

 Ulf> This makes it a lot easier to test other peoples patches.

I don't agree, typing git add remove <foo> is trivial. That's the
glory of the distributed nature of git.

 Ulf> If you look at the statistics for the user repositories,
 Ulf> you see that there are 5 people with user repositories,
 Ulf> including mine, and last updates were from

 Ulf> correa:          3 months ago,
 Ulf> wberrier:       2 months ago,
 Ulf> tpetazzoni:   9 days ago
 Ulf> ulf:                 33 hours ago
 Ulf> jacmet:         -

which corresponds pretty nicely with the list of active developers:

git shortlog -s -n 2009.05..
    73  Peter Korsgaard
    31  Thomas Petazzoni
     9  Maxim Grigoriev
     8  Will Newton
     7  Sven Neumann
     5  Gustavo Zacarias
     4  Nigel Kukard
     2  Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
     2  Daniel Mack
     2  Ulf Samuelsson
     1  Alex Dobrynin
     1  Evan Zelkowitz
     1  H Hartley Sweeten
     1  Lionel Landwerlin
     1  Markus Heidelberg
     1  Pwalters
     1  laurent laffont

Bernhard has his repo on repo.or.cz for historical reasons.

 Ulf> This does not indicate a high level of popularity to me.
 Ulf> Maybe people are keeping trees in other locations, but
 Ulf> that means that they are hidden from most users.

No, it indicates that buildroot is a small project with limited amount
of active developers (and luckily a lot of outside contributers).

 Ulf> In reality, the way Buildroot works today seems to be that
 Ulf> people are sending patches to the mailing-list.

And that's exactly what they should do. We *WANT* to see the patches
on the mailing list so they can get reviewed.

We also don't want to require outsiders to learn git in order to
contribute patches.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard