From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29253 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2013 16:55:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29228 invoked by uid 89); 14 Nov 2013 16:55:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-oa0-f41.google.com Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-oa0-f41.google.com) (209.85.219.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:55:12 +0000 Received: by mail-oa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id g12so2572022oah.0 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:55:05 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hjyoN3Fk0ylR+zrQWjX5t7UXhhz9w0ueYJlk9itYymI=; b=ei7Mh/p8+XQKZ7VvpvMkKHIzMCz3FMw6bm9++M965FEDs51mIag3m8CL7oDnZyMigF RVGdbqVkLR6B7B+J+LPnoBNQ6PaoYZHgWkiEEiHh4dke6pCPrHy93wc9QvATtaT2vnye H3NBRclj/kroTwyhSERjlK7iPM0gYY6bN1lfRx1mUiuNXKgHWFXS3aBcdvUrG0toehD7 +T+PwvW0+u/XCf2PGfz2m0UZZptxWk+6S0pFpQOR7vcQYJ/8sfDhUhlwpRNbjb5DGZCG qpPAxZPjSnAuWP0bkB04RT7vuPTSE5/x1HhcRYeiIh6NvvJKyr7tprGaeA51oKYrKCri /fOQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlY1wydjGqp9ncMRxTeP5t5fo5ND0c/2T786OEbK3Q4nYqbULqbo3/HMBvS0YVF9MH5VD1KOnX8RKjSMuYFBNE5/G+gNus1ssDaa/umslfr4A3+6jEhIiTYtyyea1DQwCHKenX1dogCDcnvG/bZNifvywYSMqB8GY3WUxqgR0HxYsdSXNo4GkCAseN3Wglki8F3D8+A MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.133.233 with SMTP id pf9mr2533681oeb.46.1384448105107; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:55:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.145.144 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:55:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83r4ajym3z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877gd5iyaz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <1382709091.5918.9.camel@otta> <5284ACD1.8090609@arm.com> <20131114111140.GF12772@adacore.com> <83r4ajym3z.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: git is live From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Joel Brobecker , Richard Earnshaw , Peter Bergner , Tom Tromey , gdb , Binutils , Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Joel Brobecker >> >> But for decentralized systems such as git, I think vendor branches >> could be just as easily hosted elsewhere. With git, it's really easy >> for anyone to host it somewhere, and publish its location. It's also >> equally easy for anyone interested in the work to add that location >> a remote, and fetch from it. > > Obviously, this discussion only has sense if the branch is hosted by > sourceware. Otherwise, what could we do to prevent J. R. Hacker from > publishing a branch from her own machine? Nothing. But I don't see why that matters. I'm mildly in favor of permitting vendor branches on gcc.gnu.org for a different reason: it encourages vendors with GCC extensions to make those extensions readily available to everybody. If we require vendors to handle their own hosting, we will inevitably have some who simply decide not to bother. Ian