Now world-writable staging branches for live-* components
For the different live-* componenets, we do use a two-branch model with
'debian' and 'debian-next'.
While the 'debian' branch contains all commits up to the last release
and has a 'always fast-forward' guarantee, the debian-next branch is
subject to occasional rebases when preparing releases and therefore not
always fast-forward.
Hence, these 'debian-next' branches are the place where the actual
development process happens. Profiting from better support of finer
access control in gitolite over gitosis (after the lenny->wheezy upgrade
of live.d.n beginning end of last month), we were now able to open up
live-* repositories to the public in the following mannor:
Everyone is welcome to push commits directly to the debian-next
branches of the live-build, live-boot, live-config, live-debconfig,
and live-tools repositories.
The following commit restrictions apply (commits get rejected by the
server);
* any non fast-forward pushes
* any pushes to a different branch than debian-next
* any pushes with merge commits (do a rebase before you push)
* any pushes of tags
* any branch creation or deletion[0]
The usual common sense applies:
* Although the person preparing the release (usually me) of a
component however will edit commits as needed to ensure
correctness/consistency/quality etc., that doesn't mean you're
supposed to push crap for someone else to clean up.
* Do commit atomically - one logical thing, one commit.
* Write good commit messages (one line description that will appear
in the changelog, more explenation if required goes into abstracts
below, see existing commits for refernces).
The debian-next branch of live-manual has been open since years already
and we had good experiences with that. The instructions in the manual
for the live-manual repository correspond for the other live-* repositories:
"1.4.1 Applying patches"
http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual/about-manual.en.html#h1.4.1
Happy contributing,
Daniel
[0] at a later point, we'll probably allow people to push random
branches prefixed with 'tmp' or so.
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