[Qgis-developer] GIT open for pull requests on master

Alexander Bruy alexander.bruy at gmail.com
Mon May 9 10:08:25 EDT 2011


Hi Tim,

is it possible to give me direct access to the master repo?
My GitHub account is alexbruy.

Thanks

2011/5/8 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
> Hi Folks
>
> Well we have been poking around with the qgis/Quantum-GIS github repo
> for the last week and I think it looks ok for us to continue to work
> against it. So unless there are any objections I would like to make it
> the 'official' code repository and update the docs etc. I will be
> adding some documentation on how to carry out your basic workflow with
> the new repo.
>
> One thing we briefly discussed on the IRC channel is not reinstating
> every committer from the svn committer list. Since we now work with a
> distributed model, it is simple for *anyone* interested in working
> against our code base to do so and contribute their changes back with
> very little effort. Also, external contributors get fully acknowledged
> as their name & email are propogated into the code history when we
> pull from their repository or apply their patches (if they were
> created using the git patch preparation tool). As such it makes little
> sense for use to have tens of committers into the core repository,
> Instead I would like to suggest that we provide the most active
> committers with direct access to the repostory and let them apply pull
> requests from others as needed. The ability to work on QGIS is truly
> democratised with GIT and the purpose of committers to the core repo
> should (in my eyes) be just to perform a final screening for code
> quality etc before it makes its way into the repository.
>
> If you are an existing svn committer and feel strongly about wanting
> to have direct commit access to the master repo, please speak up now.

-- 
Alexander Bruy


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