[libvirt] official libvirt mirror on github?

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Fri May 22 12:32:18 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:20:31AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 03:33 AM, 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.
> > 
> 
> Yes that t seems to happen with many other projects that don't use
> pull-requests. However it's easy to catch these: libvirt committers can just
> 'watch' the github repo and get email notification when there's pull-request
> activity (I wish there was a way to send these notifications to a mailing list
> but github doesn't have native support for it:
> https://github.com/github/github-services/issues/804)

Thankfully.

Jan
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