On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:13:23PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
Hi,
for reasons mostly lost in the history, after the libvirt-ocaml repository was converted to git, it was not used by its main author (Rich Jones); the development continued on Rich's git, at http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-libvirt.git;a=summary
After a talk with Rich, we agreed that it was better to move the development back to libvirt.org, just like all the other bindings. There are two problems however:
1) the first 38 commits have an bad author/committer date, and this is also the reason why the existing libvirt-ocaml is not mirrored on github
2) the top 3 commits on libvirt-ocaml were not integrated back to Rich's ocaml-libvirt, and maybe their content might not be totally OK (I will let Rich comment more on this)
While rewriting history is bad, - most probably there are not many users of libvirt-ocaml around, - the repository itself is very small (< 500k), - in general it will better to have a working repository
I agree with all those points
So what I'm proposing is to replace the libvirt-ocaml repository with a fixed version of Rich's ocaml-libvirt, and directly on the git hosting side (i.e. not using force-push on the current one). Rich has already commit access for libvirt, so there are no problems to keep his maintainer role on it. Once done, we can notify users in this list about it.
What do you think? Is it an acceptable path forward?
This sounds fine to me, and will let us fix the mirroring too. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|