Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.
Bug 366579 - Experimental git repos for committers
Summary: Experimental git repos for committers
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Git (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Eclipse Webmaster CLA
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-12-13 11:45 EST by Mike Milinkovich CLA
Modified: 2014-02-21 11:37 EST (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Mike Milinkovich CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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.