How to keep on top of pull requests

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On 2024-10-22T17:30:02-0300, Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> wrote:
> I just noticed it isn't possible to create pull requests against the 
> main mirror repositories in the sourceware forge. Is this on purpose?

Right, I immediately had noticed the same issue.  ;'-)

> I can imagine (if it is) that it is done so people don't think it's 
> possible to submit patches

I thought it was, because it was the easiest to do.

On 2024-10-23T00:36:10+0200, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 12:04:42AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> > , but this makes it hard to see what other
>> > people are doing for tests. It would be much easier if I could just
>> > check the main binutils-gdb-mirror for what people are doing.
>> 
>> I made you part of the owner team for binutils-gdb.  Hopefully this
>> makes it possible for you to create a fork of the mirror that would be
>> a normal repo. That way people could fork and create pull-requests
>> against that repo.
>
> Just tried this myself for https://forge.sourceware.org/elfutils

I'd like to do the same for GCC.

> There is now a "normal" elfutils-fork repo which is a fork of
> elfutils-mirror.

Instead of a '[...]-fork' naming convention, I'd like to use something
"stronger", like '[...]-TEST' (as Joseph had suggested; I agree).


Grüße
 Thomas


> It does take two steps though. Apparently you cannot directly into an
> organization. So you first fork the mirror to your own user. Then on
> your fork in Settings under "Danger zone" there is a "Transfer
> ownership" where you move ownership back to binutils-gdb.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark