Hi,

For the Fedora package I solely aimed at the (Kent's) evilpiepirate bcache-tools repo. Most development was done in Gabriel's (g2p) repo in preperation of the Fedora package, but that was merged by Kent prior to the Fedora package release.

After that not much has happened in Kent's repo, and te status of that repo is unclear to me.

Rolf

Op 18 sep. 2014 om 00:35 heeft David Mohr [off-list ref] het volgende geschreven:

About the licensing & copyright: I emailed Gabriel and Kent Overstreet on 2014-06-02 but did not get a reply. I admit though that I didn't follow up afterwards.

On 2014-09-17 05:55, Robie Basak wrote:

As far as I know this is the status of the git trees:

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1) http://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcache-tools.git

Original sources, no changes in a while.

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2) git://github.com/g2p/bcache-tools.git

First clone by Gabriel, contains work and bugfixes to the bcache-tools userland and some initial Debian packaging.

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3) git://github.com/squisher/bcache-tools.git

My work on Debian packaging. I set Vcs-Git to g2p's version instead of mine because that seems to be the most active upstream repository. I thought this was relevant for uscan, but obviously I was wrong (as was pointed out on mentors.debian.net).

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4) git://github.com/basak/bcache-tools.git

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Vcs-Git points to 2 (g2p). I also noted that the github branches seem to
contain commits to the upstream source, too, that aren't present in the
"upstream" repository (1).

I thought that (1) is historic at this point and considered (2) the upstream. I did not verify that though.

I would suggest to co-maintain the package on https://alioth.debian.org/projects/collab-maint

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I think it would be easiest to upload, since I think it's good to go and
this will at least result in a definitive packaging state that we can
work from.

Fine by me.

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In the meantime, I think branch 3 contained everything, so I cloned that
one to add my two commits. To keep Vcs-Git correct g2p should pull my
commits, or else we can change Vcs-Git.

Right, see above.

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So in summary:
1) Define and agree maintainers.

I'd like to get my feet wet and co-maintain, if you're interested.

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2) g2p to pull my commits, or we agree to change Vcs-Git, or we drop
Vcs-Git for now.

I'd say point it at 3) or at collab-maint, if that's where the packaging ends up being.

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3) Upload. Either my colleague (James Page) can do it as he's already
reviewed the packaging itself, or someone else. Let me know if there are
any objections to James uploading.

Bernd Zeimetz, I added him to the CC, was willing to sponsor the package once it was ready. But since he has been pretty busy recently, I don't think he'll object to James uploading. I definitely don't; it'd be awesome to get this finally into the official repository!

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4) Sort out which trees are canonical upstream and packaging branches,
and push all commits to those places.

I very much agree.

~David
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