From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Kurth Subject: Re: xenbits GitHub mirror? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:18:10 +0000 Message-ID: References: <5675C368.9020601@cardoe.com> <1453827340.25257.47.camel@citrix.com> <56A7AC28.4050108@cardoe.com> <1453887932.25257.55.camel@citrix.com> <56A8A238.9040009@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <6B5BD631411C5B4D8EC23031255DF9CA@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap , Andrew Cooper Cc: Doug Goldstein , Ian Campbell , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Sorry, I have been a little bit unresponsive. Things were a little hectic in the last 2 weeks. On 27/01/2016 11:21, "George Dunlap" wrote: > >> FWIW, I am +1 for setting up infrastructure like this, but lets do it >> properly. >> >> Lars: Thoughts? I don't mind if we had an official github mirror. In fact, it may make the project a little bit more accessible to the younger crowd. >Doug says that you can mark a repo as a 'mirror', which will prevent >people from being able to send pull requests to it; so I think my >technical objection has been answered. > >I think the idea is still only half-baked though, as I'm not sure how >having a github mirror will make it so that most mail has a git repo >you can pull from (which would be necessary to reach the ultimate >goal, making it straightforward to apply patches sent to the list). I would be good, if we could identify any workflow issues (e.g. such as the mailing issue raised here). Maybe some of the people who have hands-on experience with Github and mailing lists can make a few suggestions. We then should also consider adding this to the How to submit patches wiki page Lars