Re: Official git mirror on github/gitorious?

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

On 30/01/2011 16:12, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:40:08 +0000
> Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk> wrote:
>
> []
>>>> There is an "official" Ångstrom mirror on gitorious.
>>>>
>>>> http://gitorious.org/+angstrom-distribution/angstrom/openembedded
>>> Yes, seeing it made me think that it would be nice to fork it via
>>> site means. Is there guarantee of upstream update time for it?
>>> Also, even then it seems like a 2nd-level fork, not forking a pure
>>> OE repo specially designed to keep track of offshots.
>>>
>> No we just update it sometime or other. But with git it doesn't really
>> matter I think.
>>
>> I think you best option is to approach OE with a plan to run such
>> projects yourself and get the admins to put a crontab in for you which
>> does the update nightly or something like that.
> Well, it's indeed doesn't matter much technically, and not important
> for one case. But as I pointed out, there're ~30 or something forks
> around. Maybe it would be good visibility, and well, PR, if there were
> official mirrors on popular git hosting sites where that number
> (dozen or so) could be seen directly.
>
> Otherwise, having asked if it's already there, I better just put up
> my little stuff like everybody else did so far, and hopefully proceed
> to submit patches/advocate them instead ;-).
>
Personally I think the idea is probably good. But Id hate to ask the
already overworked OE admins to try and maintain yet another system. As
a board member i prefer the method of co-opting fellow OE users to feel
empowered to run these services themselves with support from us. The
more we can push tasks like this to ordinary developers such as yourself
the better. The more OE can spread the load the better for the whole
community.

Graeme