[lltx] luatexbase, luatextra etc.

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Mon May 10 15:20:56 CEST 2010


Le 10/05/2010 14:53, Will Robertson a écrit :
> On 10/05/2010, at 20:34, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> 
>> I consider mpg/luatexbase on github to be the reference version. If
>> you want
>> push access to this version, it's ok with me as long as I am confident
>> you'll
>> act responsibly, eg make sure you understand what the branches are
>> for, try to
>> discuss before undoing things I did, and carefully check your code,
>> before
>> pushing anything.
> 
> I realise I've been (regretably) out of the loop all this time, but my
> opinion here is that since github makes forks so easy there's no huge
> pressing reason for everyone to have push access to each other's
> repositories. In fact, I sort of feel that it can dampen high frequency
> noise of the sort we've seen here, albeit with the downside that some
> things can take a little longer to propagate.
> 
I tend to agree.

But whatever solution we choose, I'd like to emphasize again the importance of
communicating in order to avoid counter-productive moves. If there are many
forks, one of them has to be the reference and one should always seek
integration in the reference repo in order to avoid yet another mess.

Manuel.



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