[dm-devel] New draft openSUSE multipath-tools repo on github

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 1/6/21 11:45 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Hi Christophe, Ben, everybody,
> 
> On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 22:45 +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 11:26 +0100, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
>>> Sure, nice work.
>>>
>>> Would you like to create a PR, to merge it upstream ?
>>> So we can test if this process makes sense.
>>
>> Sure, will do.
>>
>> One problem that I currently have is that the openSUSE/multipath-
>> tools
>> repo is a fork of your old repo, and it's impossible to change the
>> upstream repo in github, AFAICS. Therefore I can't create a PR
>> directly
>> from openSUSE/multipath-tools.
>>
>> I guess I'll have to re-build the openSUSE/multipath-tools repo "from
>> scratch" as a fork of your new github repo before we can
>> realistically
>> work with github PRs. That's a bit of work because there are many
>> branches, and it needs to be discussed and coordinated in our
>> organization.
> 
> I've drafted the new openSUSE multipath-tools github repo now:
> 
> https://github.com/openSUSE/multipath-tools-1
> 
> (the repo name will change!)
> 
> This repo is forked from Christophe's github repo and will thus allow
> creating Pull Requests for Christophe.
> 
> I have simplified the branch names that matter for upstream development
> wrt the old repo:
> 
>    upstream-queue -> queue
>    upstream-fixes -> fixes
>    upstream-tip -> tip (this one contains github CI)
> 
> Besides these, the repo contains some (open)SUSE-specific branches and
> tags, but I've left out a lot of old stuff which will continue to live
> on the old openSUSE repo only.
> 
> Please have a look. If I get positive feedback, I'll rename the current
> openSUSE multipath-tools repo to "openSUSE/multipath-tools-pre2021" and
> rename this one to "openSUSE/multipath-tools".
> 
Looks good to me.

Cheers,

Hannes
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