On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/06/2011 08:35 PM, Michael Krufky wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hans de Goede<hdego...@redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 09/06/2011 06:24 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> I've been thinking for a while that perhaps the project should be
>>>> renamed (or I considered prepending "kl" onto the front resulting in
>>>> it being called "kl-tvtime").  This isn't out of vanity but rather my
>>>> concern that the fork will get confused with the original project (for
>>>> example, I believe Ubuntu actually already calls their modified tree
>>>> tvtime 1.0.3).  I'm open to suggestions in this regards.
>>>
>>> I think that what should be done is contact the debian / ubuntu
>>> maintainers,
>>> get any interesting fixes they have which the kl version misses merged,
>>> and then just declare the kl version as being the new official upstream
>>> (with the blessing of the debian / ubuntu guys, and if possible also
>>> with the blessing of the original authors).
>>>
>>> This would require kl git to be open to others for pushing, or we
>>> could move the tree to git.linuxtv.org (which I assume may be
>>> easier then for you to make the necessary changes to give
>>> others push rights on kl.org).
>>
>> Hans,
>>
>> Everybody is welcome to contribute to open source projects, but global
>> contribution doesn't mean that a given server be opened up to commits
>> by the general public.
>
> I didn't write open to commits by the general public, now did I? I wrote
> open to commits by others. For most upstream projects it is quite normal
> that several people have push rights to the master tree. This actually
> is quite a good idea, as it avoids adding a SPOF into the chain. It
> means development can continue if one of the maintainers is on vacation
> for a a few weeks, or just having a period in his/her life where he
> is too busy to actively contribute to a spare time project.

Hans,

Now I understand -- that's completely reasonable.  It looks like Devin
is happy having the tree hosted on linuxtv.org anyway, so no worries
:-)  Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Best Regards,

Mike Krufky
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