Review of git namespace "gentoo" and documented ownership?

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Fri Feb 13 23:31:36 GMT 2026


"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hello Carlos et al, 
>
> the gentoo/* branches in sourceware glibc.git are old, these are from
> before Sam and me got involved.
>
> The current Gentoo vendor branches are on our own Gentoo git server, 
>
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/fork/glibc.git/
>
> (mostly because in the beginning I had only push access there). The 
> current arrangement works well for us, and I've also pulled all the old 
> gentoo/* branches from sourceware and pushed them to gentoo.
>
> So as far as we are concerned, the gentoo/* branches on sourceware
> can be marked as retired (or even deleted).

ack

>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>
> Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2026, 14:25:39 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Carlos O'Donell:
>> Andreas, Sam,
>> 
>> In this morning's Office Hours for CTI we reviewed the branches and their
>> owners and I noticed we had a gentoo branch.
>> 
>> May you please help us by updating the wiki to identify the owners of the
>> namespace so we have a point of contact?
>> 
>> "Branch Name Space Conventions"
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/GlibcGit#Branch_Name_Space_Conventions
>> 
>> With a transition to gitolite we can explicitly identify keys which are
>> permitted to collaborate on the branch and it would start with the
>> namespace owners.
>> 
>> Alternatively we can mark it as retired or unused?
>> 
>> 
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