-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:32 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > When the user has their tree up to how they want it, they can > > either send a pull request to another gentoo dev who also has a > > fork on github, or send a link to the commit via some medium ( bug > > tracker ? ) , and some dev can just add that as a remote, and > > merge/cherry-pick the commits they want.. > > ...is this something we (as the developer base) WANT non-dev's to be > able to do?? I would expect we'd want the tree to still be treated as > read-only-not-modifyable by the rest of the gentoo/linux community, > otherwise we're going to have a rather large mess on our hands > (multiple forks of the main tree != a uniform main tree + overlays, > the way it does now)
That's only a problem if you don't merge things quickly. Encouraging users to submit git format-patches or merge requests is a great way of reducing developer workload. - -- Ciaran McCreesh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk++eQMACgkQ96zL6DUtXhF4kgCfZkdR7RTvUUlFdTgdNkyDHwGK NlgAoKgSUKEWN6WnrihawHkhhrPbJlv2 =8RdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
