Endorsement of https://github.com/fedoraproject

[Dennis Gilmore]

El Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:19:08 +0100
Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf at redhat.com> escribió:
> Hello members of the Board,
> 
> I would like to petition the Board to endorse 
> https://github.com/fedoraproject as a secondary outlet of hosted code.
> 
> Some projects that go into Fedora have their upstream hosted on
> GitHub. To get these projects into Fedora not only spec files need to
> be created, in most cases patches need to be created as well. While
> these patches themselves are available in the corresponding rpm git
> repo (pkgs.fedoraproject.org) they are not easily usable for upstream 
> developers. (And in most cases "hand"-crafted, instead of maintained
> in a real branch.) An upstream developer is used to work on a git
> branch.
> 
> Whilst it is possible to maintain such a git branch at
> fedorahosted.org it would suffer from a lack of integration with the
> upstream branch hosted on GitHub itself.
> 
> Note that this petition does not ask for alleviation of hosting on 
> fedorahosted.org should that be required. In that case 
> https://github.com/fedoraproject would serve as a mirror of 
> fedorahosted.org.
> 
> I do say that Fedora should endorse and administrate the account
> known as fedoraproject on GitHub for the sole purpose of providing an
> extra outlet of Fedora branches related to GitHub hosted upstream
> projects.
> 
> Note that I'm completely ignorant of actual possibilities and I
> hereby apologize for said ignorance.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

since github is propietory its not an acceptable option for fedora.  so
i think in this case we need to say no. there are plenty of ways that
packagers and developers can work together without the need of this.

Dennis