[zeromq-dev] Contribution process, revisited

Benjamin Henrion bh at udev.org
Tue Mar 22 17:30:51 CET 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> After some time playing with multiple gits for 0MQ releases, I'd like
> to reopen the discussion on best practices for our community on
> contribution workflow.
>
> My goals here is consistency, simplicity, and freedom. Also if it
> doesn't make sense on a grey Monday morning before coffee, it's too
> complex.
>
> Some observations:
>
> * The neatest organization seems to be "one ego per git". We've been
> using this rule to divide the original core 0MQ git into separate
> projects, and it feels right.
> * We end up with many gits, each with a clear owner, and with flow of
> changes going between them N-to-N.
> * github pull requests don't work except between an original git and
> its forks. Thus they are useless for general distributed work.

Can you explain why they do not work?

I used it before, and it worked perfectly.

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