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Re: Vendor branches on sourceware.org's binutils-gdb repo
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, aaro dot koskinen at iki dot fi, sergiodj at redhat dot com, emachado at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com, tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:46:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: Vendor branches on sourceware.org's binutils-gdb repo
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> It's not the infrastructure. It's policies. Some companies have a policy
> of not publishing any code outside except through a heavy process, which
> might include a white-list of where it may be published/hosted.
> sourceware.org is on that white-list already. It may be very painful to
> extend that white-list.
Companies that do have such a white list are an acceptable exception,
IMO, and I would be OK with having their branches in our sourceware.org
repository.
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Joel