From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: GSoC: Manolis to work on Guix port to GNU/Hurd Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:15:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87oam660oi.fsf@fsf.org> References: <87sibihgf6.fsf@gnu.org> <20150429215345.GA9559@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43411) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaGk-0000mP-5l for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:15:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaGj-0007rb-3i for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:15:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150429215345.GA9559@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge , Manolis Ragkousis Cc: Guix-devel , svante.signell@gmail.com, bug-hurd@gnu.org, Samuel Thibault Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, Manolis, and welcome! > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:01:44AM +0300, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: >> I just wanted to add that I will keep a repo at github which I will upload any >> (serious) local changes before I send them as patches so anyone can keep >> an eye on the current status of my work. > > I am not quite sure how this is supposed to make things easier. Why not simply > use a branch in the guix repo (like the existing wip-hurd, or wip-wip-hurd for > very experimental changes)? Then every commit of yours will be sent to our > mailing list, and you develop directly in our infrastructure. > > Not to mention that github is not exactly popular in the free software > community, see "service as a software substitute", or > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html I don't see any issue with a personal fork hosted on GitHub. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate