Re: Github?

Subject: Re: Github?

Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 23:18:23 +0000

To: David Bremner, guyzmo+notmuch@m0g.net, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Wael Nasreddine


Well like I said in my first email, if you guys are interested in owning
and maintaining the GitHub repo it is yours, besides I have not done
anything with the history I only added one commit which will never conflict
with upstream unless you add a .Travis.yml file :)

On Thursday, May 8, 2014 3:42:05 PM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
wrote:

> Wael Nasreddine <wael.nasreddine@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I didn't see the previous email about it, thank you Jani for the link. It
> > looks like you guys have your hands full and everything setup the way you
> > like it, so here's what I'll do myself (if it's acceptable with you,
> > otherwise I'll just remove everything):
> >
> > - Revert my changes (except for the CI)
> > - Set a cron job to update the mirror hourly for the Github user wanting
> to
> > fork.
> > - Remove the Issues, Pull Request and the Wiki
> > - Add a "mirror of .." to the description on top of the page
> > - Manually update the contrib/ bindings/ as they change in here and maybe
> > automate it later.
> >
> > For the automatic pusher, I'll have to skip the README changes.
>
> I think the concensus among the devs is that if there is going to be a
> "notmuch" organization on github then it should be owned by and
> controlled by us.
>
> I'm sure your intentions are good, but reasonable people can differ
> about the best way to do things; in particular it makes no sense to me have
> a mirror where the history has been rewritten, meaning that people can't
> merge to or from the offical repo.
>
> Of course what you do as your own github user is up to you.
>
> d
>
>

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