]] Joey Hess > Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > If anything it may be nice to mirror some "important" Debian software (say > > dpkg, debhelper, lintian, ...) on GitHub like the Apache Foundation does [0] > > (also see [1]). > > > > AFAIK those mirrors are completely automated and would allow GitHub users to > > follow the development of a few interesting Debian projects. > > In my experience this leads to a raft of badly formed pull requests that > I cannot triage while offline (see Linus's rant about no diffs) and that > I have to pull up a bloated web app over https over a modem to look > at;
The pull requests show up as branches in your remote repository, so you can pull them using the normal git tools. No diffs in the pull request email itself though. I guess that's something github might be convinced to add if somebody asks. > as well as random forks, none of which are communicated to me, and > within some of which there might be value, but hunting it out is > unlikely to be a good use of my time; as well as a crappy BTS (that can > at least be disabled). Yeah, the random forks is quite annoying. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
