Filesystem Misinformation [was Re: Homebrew]

[Blair Zajac]

On 5/18/10 4:45 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
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> On May 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> 1. It's easy to create a fork of a port, using git to do the branch management.  This is similar to what various folks envisioned for the "remote index" feature which was never completed.  Joe Blow can grab a port, edit it or use it as seed corn for an entirely new port, and submit the results of their work back up to the main repo without having to necessarily be a committer.  The committers, in turn, can look through all the submissions to some "experimental, public contributed branch" and merge things as they have the opportunity to test them, those "pre-ports" also being available to the community at large until such time as the committers get around to either incorporating the port or arguing why it needs to stay experimental.

Switching to github would be an interesting experiment.  It would make it much 
easier to fold contributions into the mainline port tree, especially if you 
could have a shared account that committers could pull commits into.

Regards,
Blair