<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I am pretty sure that this, more cvs/svn orientated branching strategy is not optimal.<br><br></div>There is no need for users to have branches, they should have forks.<br></div>There they can branch, and create for these branches pull requests.<br><br></div>Of course you can create also branches per user, but this only pollutes the repo with unnecessary stuff.<br><br><div>You could take pull requests from every trust able person fore each package, the maintainer models is total obsolete that only scales bad, distributes work bad, and is a bottleneck by design.<br><br></div><div>Honestly, if, for example, Niki would make a pull request for some package update because he needs it in MELD, I would pull it in if he is the maintainer or not.<br></div><div>Maybe with a 'next release branch' for some time to give early adopter chance to do additional testing, which his more a useful branching strategy than per 'trusted user'.<br></div><div>And this is more the open source, or general how it works, model of today,<br></div><div>but of course just IMHO and I do not want to convince anybody of anything, as usual this are just my 2 cents ;-)<br><br></div><div>Regards<br></div><div>Harald <br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-05 17:24 GMT+01:00 Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:willysr@slackbuilds.org" target="_blank">willysr@slackbuilds.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> For the moment SBo prefers tarballs, well, for the moment that's the<br>
> only option.<br>
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> There is no git for ordinary users and maintainers as of now.<br>
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</span>That's not true<br>
we do allow "some" maintainers to have their own branches in our GIT<br>
repository. See <a href="https://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://slackbuilds.org/cgit/<wbr>slackbuilds/</a><br>
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