[libvirt] official libvirt mirror on github?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:33:19AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 21:34:25 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Anyone considered setting up libvirt*.git mirrors on github? Given the
> > popularity of github these days, IMO it's unfortunate we don't have an
> > official mirror on there.
> > 
> > As far as the actual mirroring though, we'd probably need to set up hooks on
> > libvirt.org to push new commits up to github, there doesn't appear to be any
> > better way than that.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I'm worried that once we have a github clone that is described as
> official it will motivate people to send code via github pull requests
> rather than via the mailing list.
> 
> I don't object to the mirror though, we just should make it obvious that
> it's read only and that we certainly don't accept any pull requests.

FYI we already have an automated read-only mirror on gitlab.com, and
previously on gitorious.org.

Regards,
Daniel
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