The Github mirror isn't affiliated with R-core developers -- it just fetches the changes from the R SVN repository periodically. Changes won't go upstream to the main SVN repository, and that's probably why there aren't very many forks of the Github repo.
-Winston On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. I missed it, I guess. > > I am surprised by the relatively low number of forks... > > > L. > > On 2013-03-16 11:28, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > There is already a mirror on GitHub at https://github.com/wch/r-source . > > > > Peter > > > > On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:17, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com > > <mailto:lgaut...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been looking at mirroring the SVN R repository into a DVCS > >> (Mercurial, Git, bzr, etc...). > >> > >> The idea would be to have that as an always up-to-date untouched > >> master (a mirror) but having it in a DVCS would make forks easier to > >> make and maintain, and possibly ease up the process of having patches > >> included upstream. > >> > >> Would anyone else be interested ? > >> > >> > >> Laurent > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org <mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
