Re: Procedure to allow creation of a"users/ARM" namespace on binutils-gdb git?

[Marcin KoÅcielnicki <koriakin at 0x04 dot net>]

Is there even such a procedure?  I assumed branches in "users/" may be 
created at will by anyone (I didn't ask anyone before creating my 
users/mwk/*).

On 14/03/16 13:07, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> Ping?
>
> On Thursday 10 March 2016 10:08:13 Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > TL;DR: What needs doing to OK the creation of a "users/ARM" namespace on
> > binutils-gdb git?
> >
> > The toolchain that ARM maintains at [1] occasionally contains some patches
> > on top of the stable binutils and gdb branches on which it is based.
> > Typically, this would be backports to add support for a new ARM
> > architecture (eg. Cortex- m7 support in our release based on GCC 4.8 and
> > 4.9). The source for this is currently only available as tarball and we
> > would like to have publicly available branches for users who which to have
> > the patch breakdown or prefer to use git clone. These would work in a
> > similar manner to the ARM/embedded-5- branch in GCC SVN repository. We
> > believe the most sensible location for hosting these branches is on
> > sourceware as a sub-namespace of users, in the same way as the "users/hjl"
> > namespace. People would then clone the binutils branch with git clone -b
> > ARM/embedded-5-branch
> > ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git and similar for gdb.
> >
> > We are therefore wondering what is the procedure to OK the creation a new
> > namespace (say users/ARM) on sourceware?
> >
> > [1] https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Thomas Preud'homme