Re: GNU GRUB maintenance

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 01:24:50PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 07.10.2015 23:36, SevenBits wrote:
> 
> >>     What other systems would be ok? It
> >>     obviously has to be a free software and hosted on free 
> >> software-friendly
> >>     hosting. It also has to have an efficient 1-click merge (so that 
> >> someone
> >>     with privileges can get any patch submitted to the system merged in
> >>     couple of clicks).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I know that git is pretty popular...
> >>
> > Git integration is a plus. Like gerrit: git based with a review system
> > on top of it.
> 
> Is "has to be a free software" an absolute requirement?

Also an kernel.org git account could be requested. It is there for
syslinux, dracut, bluetooth, etc. GRUB2 could be hosted there as well?

> 
> Github, the web, is not open source. However it uses git, adds
> features (like the "1-click merge" and organization), and free (to
> use) for open source projects.
> 
> Some open source projects hosted on github (and use the organization feature):
> https://github.com/zfsonlinux
> https://github.com/freeradius
> 
> Some open source projects using github as mirror:
> https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/
> 
> Github help on web-based pull request:
> https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
> https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request/
> 
> The downside with github that I can think of, is that for efficient
> use of the "1-click merge" web interface, the pull request must be
> created from the github interface (and the discussion will happen
> there as well), as opposed to in the mailing list like what currently
> happen. Then again, if the intention is simply to provide
> "notification to the mailing list" (and no need to allow discussion
> participation FROM the mailing list on the pull requests), you could
> probably work around that by having a normal git account with
> mailing-list address "watching" your repository.
> 
> -- 
> Fajar
> 
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