github mirror fixed

Martin Preisler mpreisle at redhat.com
Fri Jun 20 15:01:16 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Elin" <gregelin at gitmachines.com>
> To: "Martin Preisler" <mpreisle at redhat.com>
> Cc: "SCAP Security Guide" <scap-security-guide at lists.fedorahosted.org>, "Shawn Wells" <swells at redhat.com>, "Simon
> Lukasik" <slukasik at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 4:43:25 PM
> Subject: Re: github mirror fixed
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Is the issue that fedora hosted cannot accept update/pull requests from
> github?

The github mirror is supposed to be a read-only repo. We mirror one way, from fedorahosted to github. If something appears in the github repo that is not in the fedorahosted repo, that creates conflicts. There is no established process where commits in github mirror repo get to the fedorahosted repo.

Long story short - no, fedorahosted can't accept github pull requests.

> 
> Would the following workflow be viable,
> 
> Fedorahosted is upstream master repo for SSG.
> 
> GitHub has a downstream SSG repo that always follows upstream at fedora
> hosted and is essentially read-only.
> 
> GitHub has a second downstream SSG repo called SSGdev.
> 
> We could do pull requests on SSGdev and yourself, Shawn an Jan can pull from
> SSGdev to upstream Fedorahosted (maybe through traditional process).

Yes, this is possible but I am not the one to decide that :-) Personally I'd prefer to move the repos that I work on to github because it's more convenient for me. IMO pull requests > mailing list patches.

-- 
Martin Preisler


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