Where is the talloc repository?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 17 19:33:49 UTC 2016


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:28:39PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:02:15AM -0400, Simo wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not think this really is a problem, they are still core samba libs
> >> with full commit access by team members. The issue is really the idea
> >> of syncing stuff, like any sync protocol, eventually stuff get missed
> >> unless you have a tool to check and reconcile or avoid syncing.
> >>
> >> With the right tooling I do not think having to commit to a separate
> >> repo would be a huge issue, it's more or less like committing to a
> >> separate branch.
> >
> > So I just committed Andreas's patch to the wrapper libs in
> > a separate repository, and it wasn't too bad (as you say,
> > like committing to a different Samba branch).
> >
> > The big problem now is I want that back into Samba, and it
> > would be nice for this to be automatic now it's in the
> > upstream branch. Don't want to have to do back-ports.
> >
> > How is this best achieved ?
> 
> I apologize for raising this contentious issue again.

Don't sweat it Richard, it's something that needs discussing
every so often. If we don't keep questioning our tooling,
we'll end up just mailing patches to each other on a centralized
source code repository. Oh wait... ? :-).



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