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Bug 366579

Summary:	Experimental git repos for committers
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	denis.roy
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Mike Milinkovich

2011-12-13 11:45:42 EST

Igor Federenko quite rightly pointed out today that at eclipse there is no notion of "experimental" or "scratch-pad" repositories for Eclipse committers. It seems to me that it should be possible for the EF to provide all of its committers this ability. Basically, a place to have public and private git repos on Eclipse.org infrastructure where they can try things out.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-12-14 10:16:25 EST

Today, committers have the ability to create repos themselves, or request that webmasters create repos for them.  If projects would like experimental repos, I'm not sure what is stopping them from requesting them.

The notion of "private" code repositories is foreign to the OSS nature of Eclipse.org. Enabling this would require some thought, since we'd probably need to create another location altogether for these private repos (since the current containers are intended to be public).  Also, we would also need to consider the unforeseen consequences of allowing "private" code (ie, some committers could put non-IP-approved third party code in private repos and build from there)...

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2014-02-21 11:37:54 EST

It seems that today, GitHub is used for the experimental stuff.  I don't think we need to provide any additional infra.  Please reopen if I've not assessed this correctly.