On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:12:57 +1200 Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 18 April 2015 at 08:03, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> writes: > > > >> So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't > >> think this should be the Vcs-Git: target. No, I don't think we > >> should endorse GitHub. Yes, we need free tools. Yes, we should > >> contribute to the F/OSS community where upstreams are. > To pick a specific example, if you want to get a patch into OpenStack > you *must*: > - sign up for the OpenStack gerrit system > - sign a CLA > - put your patch into git and push it into gerrit > > Anything else simply won't be accepted. Indeed, this is precisely why - in Linaro - we chose to push LAVA upstream repos to github as mirrors just so that contributors did not need to register for a Linaro account but could use an existing github account. We've already received useful contributions via github and so support will continue. Those who choose to or who make regular contributions are, of course, welcome to register for a Linaro community account and submit directly to review.linaro.org, the gerrit instance for Linaro. An account isn't a big deal but as there is a trivial way of allowing contributions without it, we thought it would be daft not to use github as an upstream mirror - I don't even need to explicitly push to it. We were asked to do it by github users, we are happy to oblige as the setup is trivial and it "just works". (So I'm in Linaro and Debian organisations now on github. Yay!) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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