<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Radek,<div><br><div><div>Am 27.10.2014 um 11:30 schrieb Radek Polak <<a href="mailto:psonek2@seznam.cz">psonek2@seznam.cz</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:15:09 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Who is testing what repo.</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">It was always pleasure to test Neils repo for me..</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>is this meant to imply (sometimes it might be important what has not been said),</div><div>that it is not a pleasure to test the gta04-kernel repo?</div><div><br></div><div>If yes, what are the hurdles?</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';"><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> And</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> how does it fit into the hierarchy which ends at <a href="http://kernel.org/">kernel.org</a>?</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> My idea would be:</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> marek belisko</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> + neil brown</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> + nikolaus schaller</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> + others -> gta04-kernel -> reformatting -> upstreaming -></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> linus/master -+ ^</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> instead of</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> neil brown ^</div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> (I hope the drawing is readable)</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Central repository is wrong concept. If you cant handle upstream changes (which involves resolving conflicts and rebasing), you should think if your model is really the good one.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, I agree that a model that cant handle upstreaming is not a good one.</div><div><br></div><div>Since we are constantly upstreaming from the gta04-kernel repo (using this model</div><div>since approx. 12 months) without significant issues [1], you must be talking</div><div>about something different.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore I ask for testing and submitting patches. You dont even have to</div><div>take care of upstreaming (because we do), so it should be easier to contribute</div><div>missing pieces, especially for people starting to do kernel development.</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Nikolaus</div><div><br></div></div><div>[1]: search <a href="https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/">https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/</a> for marek or me</div></body></html>