Re: Move mdadm development to Github

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 4/30/24 11:26, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 在 2024/04/26 16:22, Mariusz Tkaczyk 写道:
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:27:44 +0100
>> Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/04/2024 13:27, Paul E Luse wrote:
>>>> * Instead of using the mailing list to propose patches, use GitHub Pull
>>>>     Requests. Mariusz is setting up GitHub to send an email to the 
>>>> mailing
>>>>     list so that everyone can still be made aware of new patches in the
>>>>     same manner as before.  Just use GitHub moving forward for actual
>>>>     code reviews.
>>>
>>> Does that mean contributors now need a github account? That won't go
>>> down well with some people I expect ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>>
>> Hi Wol,
>>
>> There are thousands repositories on Github you have to register to 
>> participate
>> and I don't believe that Linux developers may don't have Github 
>> account. It is
>> almost impossible to not have a need to sent something to Github.
> 
> Will it still be able to send and apply patches through maillist? It's
> important for us because I just can't create pr at GitHub in my
> company, already tried with Paul, due to our company policy. :(
> Although I can do this at home...
> 
I do think this is a valid point.
(Having been in Beijing recently I do share the pain from Kuai :-)

We really should keep the mailing list alive, and enable people
to choose which interface suits them best.
I don't have a problem in switching to github as the primary
tree, but we should keep the original location intact as a
mirror and continue to allow people to use the mailing list
to send patches.

This is especially important for low-volume mailing lists,
where we have quite a few occasional contributors, and we
should strive to make it as easy (and convenient) as possible
for them.

Cheers,

Hannes
>>
>> Here some examples:
>> https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
>> https://github.com/axboe/fio
>> https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut
>> https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux
>> https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace
>> https://github.com/systemd/systemd
>>
>> I see this as not a problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mariusz
>>
>> .
>>
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