Re: [libvirt] official libvirt mirror on github?

On 05/22/2015 03:33 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 21:34:25 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Anyone considered setting up libvirt*.git mirrors on github? Given the >> popularity of github these days, IMO it's unfortunate we don't have an >> official mirror on there. >> >> As far as the actual mirroring though, we'd probably need to set up hooks on >> libvirt.org to push new commits up to github, there doesn't appear to be any >> better way than that. >> >> Thoughts? > > I'm worried that once we have a github clone that is described as > official it will motivate people to send code via github pull requests > rather than via the mailing list. > Yes that t seems to happen with many other projects that don't use pull-requests. However it's easy to catch these: libvirt committers can just 'watch' the github repo and get email notification when there's pull-request activity (I wish there was a way to send these notifications to a mailing list but github doesn't have native support for it: https://github.com/github/github-services/issues/804)