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Bug 352779

Summary:	[discussion] create Eclipse Labs Git for Incubator
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Miles Parker <milesparker>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.muskalla, mik.kersten, steffen.pingel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	354434

Description Miles Parker

2011-07-21 11:51:21 EDT

Currently, a number of Mylyn rekated git mirrors are hosted on GitHub. Now that Eclipse Labs has git support, we should transition these to Eclipse Labs. To support contributors to existing mylyn projects, we could provide some mechanism for those changes to be forked against a mirror of Eclipse hosted Mylyn.

For example, I have:

https://github.com/MilesParker/mylyn.incubator

As well as some proposed changes in:

https://github.com/MilesParker/mylyn.context

I'm not sure if we should give general access for commits or how we should handle that. We could look at how other projects do that if this seems like a sensible idea to move forward on.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-08-12 10:48:35 EDT

Looking at Eclipse Labs, I already see a number of Mylyn related projects being hosted there: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/hosting/search?q=label:Mylyn . AFAIK it is open to anyone to create projects and clone any of the Mylyn git repositories. 

While we don't have an "official" Mylyn project at Eclipse Labs it seems that the current model is working. Miles, can you give an example how other projects embrace Eclipse Labs beyond what are currently doing?

I would not want extension developers to feel that they have to use Eclipse Labs if they prefer github or any other project hosting platform. I am also concerned that if we created an Eclipse Labs project we would end up taking on additional project management responsibilities without providing any additional benefit to the community.

Comment 2 Miles Parker

2011-08-12 13:19:40 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)

> I would not want extension developers to feel that they have to use Eclipse
> Labs if they prefer github or any other project hosting platform. I am also
> concerned that if we created an Eclipse Labs project we would end up taking on
> additional project management responsibilities without providing any additional
> benefit to the community.

Yes, that makes total sense. What I'll do then is open an "unofficial" git fork on Eclipse labs.

Comment 3 Miles Parker

2011-08-12 13:22:07 EDT

So I'm going to go ahead and mark this as a WONTFIX, given that people should be able to fork when they want and that it probably doesn't make sense to have one single fork for all incubator projects. If anyone objects feel free to reopen.