[augeas-devel] Burned by our git repos again

Dominic Cleal dcleal at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 22:52:55 UTC 2013


On 21/03/13 15:28, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 09:15 +0000, Dominic Cleal wrote:
>> It would be easiest if we stopped pushing to the Fedora repo, to prevent
>> the impression that we're keeping them in sync.  The web site's
>> contributors and download pages will need updating too (if I can figure
>> that process out).
> 
> I'd be all for that - at this point, I think the Fedorahosted repo just
> confuses things and people.

Ok, I've updated the website now so it only mentions the GitHub repo.
The java-augeas bindings have also been moved to GitHub, alongside the
python and ruby ones.

>> The last problem might be David's GitHub repo, which has a larger set of
>> forks/stars than the hercules-team org repo, plus receives PRs directly
>> - ideally hercules-team would act as the upstream instead.  If David's
>> willing, it could be transferred to hercules-team and we replace the
>> current augeas repo there.
>>
>> It may also be worth asking GitHub if they can help us - the web
>> suggests their staff may be able to rejig the fork relationships via a
>> support request.  If so, David may be able to open a request to transfer
>> forks/stars to the hercules-team repo from his own, then recreate his as
>> a fork of hercules-team, which would make the ancestry clearer.
> 
> Yes, I'd be more than happy to moving my repo over to ht. I'll try and
> find out from Github how easy that will be.

Thanks!

-- 
Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering




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