hi Luis; thanks for answering.
On 15 August 2013 13:00, Luis Menina <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 15/08/2013 12:44, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : >>> Actually, the fact that we have to ask to opt out is an issue in >>> itself. We shouldn't even have to. This should have been opt in from >>> the start. People (maintainers and commiters in this case) shouldn't >>> have to fight to get back what you have taken away from them. >> >> considering that this is a mirroring system of a distributed version >> control system, I'm puzzled as to what has been lost. you still have >> all your rights to the software you maintain and commit to, and you >> still have the right to push your work to more than one repository. >> care to elaborate a bit more on this? > > I'm not a maintainer, but it seems to me that a maintainer may want as > few entry points for patches as possible, or at least not need to poll > to find patches. We already have bugzilla, or git.gnome.org. If extra > clones exist and seem officially endorsed by GNOME, and there's no > process to send those patches upstream, this clearly means it's up to > the maintainer to poll for patches on these extra clones. as I said the last time the idea of a github clone was being floated around, I don't want to look in multiple places for patches. nor I want to get pull requests from mirrors I don't maintain directly — and even then, I basically always say that if a patch is not on Bugzilla, then it doesn't exist. the work that Alberto did, though, seem to be clear that: a) the canonical place for submitting patches is Bugzilla, and b) the GitHub clones are for mirroring only, so that people can easily create a public fork on their own GitHub account when they wish to hack on something. it is, essentially, a read-only mirror. as a maintainer, I don't have a problem with exposing my code on multiple venues — that's what I do already every day. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
