Endorsement of https://github.com/fedoraproject

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On IRC, someone brought up another point: github is not opensource.

The Board hasn't yet written down an exact policy regarding using
opensource for third party resources  but I suspect if we drafted a
policy and held a vote it would look something like this at the
moment: "When using third party services, we should use open source
alternatives when they are available."

So another question to be considered is whether github provides a
service that isn't available from other, open source third-parties.

-Toshio

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 04:58 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>>>
>>> However even if a packager can't get upstream commit access they can
>>> still
>>> keep a local checkout of the upstream repo and use that for both creating
>>> patches for Fedora and for sending patches back upstream (either having
>>> thir own git server or emailing patches created using git).
>>
>> I've been working with several github projects and I believe the
>> preferred method (if the patches are upstreamable) is to create a fork
>> of the github project, create a branch in your fork, and then do a
>> pull request to get upstream to evaluate your patch. It's a little
>> convoluted, especially if you haven't acclimated to the way git works,
>> but it does work well.
>>
>> Richard
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>
> True.
>
> Non-upstreamable patches like
> https://github.com/fedoraproject/jboss-as/commit/7aa8fee7fb6b50270dc8b95be9c1ba08e579b3ad
> however still require collaboration.
> Both in terms of evaluating functional loss by upstream developers (in this
> case it's a minor thing) and further enhancement by packagers.
>
> Carlo
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