On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:36:42AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
Meanwhile, my understanding of the identi.ca conversation is this:
* Pam Chestek got copyleft-next off GitHub, and nothing there told her
GitHub wasn't the canonical location for participation (this should
be fixed immediately, IMO. I realize the README says it, but there
should be something in big bold letters on GitHub: THIS IS A MIRROR
ONLY. DO NOT SUBMIT PULL REQUESTS AND ISSUES HERE. USE MAILING LIST
AND GITORIOUS [or whatever solution Fontana decides].
Ideally, the pull request/issue tracker should be turned off.
* Pam realized, probably after getting the checkout and seeing the
readme, that Gitorious was preferred.
* Pam couldn't submit changes via Gitorious (at that point, presumably
her tracking branches were all pointed at GitHub, which was probably
part of the problem).
* Fontana opened an issue on GitHub to collaborate with Pam on the
issue she raised.
* I theorized that this marked a distributing occurrence, since GitHub
instance of copyleft-next seemed to be active again instead of just being a
mirror. I complained heavily to Fontana about it, and Fontana
countered with what I believed were incorrect analogies to GPLv3
drafting process (i.e., I thought copyleft-next was trying to avoid
those, anyway!)
Pam and Fontana, is that summary accurate from your point of view?
Except for the very last part, it's completely inaccurate, but Pam has
corrected the error.
I do agree that having to follow GitHub, identi.ca, Gitorious, and
this
mailing list is annoying.
I agree with that too. For a long time it wasn't a practical problem.
- RF