Hi Philippe,
This has been discussed with LF IT last month, and
the plan is to remove git.spdx.org and the associated mirroring
and just use github account.
Gary and I are coordinating this transition, and we'll announce
more info on this email list as soon as the date is firmed up.
Kate
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I want to use Github as the primary repo for the Python tools and NOT
> the current repo at git.spdx.org.
>
> Why?
> Contributors have been complaining and are not happy with current
> setup as they should.
>
> Today the repo https://github.com/spdx/tools-python/ is a mirror of
> http://git.spdx.org/?p=spdx-tools-python.git
> This means that all commit must be done pushed to git.spdx.org and
> eventually they will be replicated to github.
> Eventually is a big word. It takes forever (it took about three days
> on a recent commit)
> This lack of sync just makes a sane workflow impossible in particular
> to review pull requests and foster collaboration.
>
> Even if the sync was to take less than a minute, this mirroring is
> just an impediment and inefficient when all the work is taking place
> on Gihub including issues and PRs.
>
> The mirroring (if needed) should be done the other way:
> http://git.spdx.org should be synced from the github repo for
> reference.
>
> This should be rather simple IMHO: just remove any mirroring hooks or
> settings from repo @ spdx
> (and if needed setup a cron job to pull from github instead.)
>
> Who can make this happen? Kate? Gary?
> I would rather have this ASAP.
>
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> Cordially
> Philippe Ombredanne
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