Hi Wolfgang,
Could a mirror of u-boot tree (and maybe u-boot-testing) be put up at github? I asked them directly to do this some time ago [1] and then got cold feet.
I've been putting this off for some time because I wasn't sure if there would be any interest or even if it was a worthy idea. My recent experience with the arm-reloc patches from Heiko [2] made me think that it could be useful.
The mirror on github would not be a replacement for the custodian trees[3] but it can be a useful starting point for staging long patches. Forks of github repos are easy to create and can be public right away meaning a long patch series can be easy for the custodians to pull and easy for testers to pull.
As an alternative anyone could, of course, create a repo on github and push a copy of u-boot from their local repo to github but having a common starting point on github means that multiple forks wouldn't waste storage space; it also makes finding the forks straightforward.
Consider the linux-2.6 mirror at github [4]. One of the forks [5] was used recently by Alexander Gordeev to propose patches for inclusion to the kernel [6]. I imagine that Heiko's patches could have been put in a github fork of u-boot-testing and made available by a URL without any intervention from you.
Best Regards, Ben Gardiner
[1] http://support.github.com/discussions/email/7257-mirror-request-u-boot?anon_... [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/81825 [3] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees [4] http://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 [5] http://github.com/ago/linux-2.6 [6] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1018841
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