On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:42 AM, olivier sallou <olivier.sal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Le 27 mai 2012 03:12, "Jon Bernard" <jbern...@debian.org> a écrit : > > >> >> * Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Hello everybody, >> > >> > for one of the packages maintained by the pkg-eucalyptus team >> > (euca2ools), the >> > upstream source moved to GitHub, and we would like to try to maintain >> > the >> > Debian package there as well. >> > >> > I see that there is already a Debian account on GitHub >> > (https://github.com/debian), currently empty. Does it belong to a >> > Developer ? >> > Would it be availble to maintain the euca2ools package in ? >> > >> > I never tried GitHub before. I know it is not Free. The point >> > maintaining a >> > Debian package on GitHub would be to easily make pull requests to >> > Upstream. Is >> > it something that would be doable from external repositories, for >> > instance >> > making a pull request to GitHub from Alioth ? (I mean, the Pull Request >> > function of GitHub, not sending an email Upstream saying in plain >> > English that >> > they can pull from Alioth). >> >> I believe a Github pull-request must reference a commit within Github >> itself. >> You could still file an issue linking to an external repository, but I >> suspect >> they're encouraging you to use Github for packaging so they can leverage >> all of >> the utilities that Github provides. You could always use Alioth as the >> primary >> repository and keep an updated mirror on Github just for this sort of >> thing. >> > Github tools work with local repo only. Keeping an updated mirror is not a > good method for me, it is a painful task and you are never sure of the > status....
I wrote a *very* hacky cron-daemon to keep fluxbox in sync on github and on git.fluxbox.org -- basically, github is "read only", and my server pulls --> pushes every couple of minutes. Code's here - https://github.com/paultag/vcs-mirror - it's a big hack, but perhaps this could let you forget about keeping it in sync. > > By the way, you can t use Debian repo to put several repo. a github repo > refers to a single git repo. > > For info, there is a very nice github like free tool named gitlab , but it I > a software, not a service. gitlabhq* :) But that's not what their upstream is on. > Olivier >> -- >> Jon > > >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120527011140.GB32538@quintessa >> > > Le 27 mai 2012 03:12, "Jon Bernard" <jbern...@debian.org> a écrit : -Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cao6p2qqoaf4icm1zpux3skxpoqzoqny--+xnuc_gxwczbvr...@mail.gmail.com
