Further Git repositories?

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

We already have a number of Git repositories, see
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/>.

Now, for publishing last years' GSoC projects etc., we'd need another
bunch of 'em: for the projects that create new ``modules'' (procfs, LISP
stuff, libchannel, eth-filter, eth-multiplexer, proc_proxy, nsmux, ...)
-- I'd like to have theses in separate repositories instead of muddling
all of them into the Hurd proper repository.

But instead of creating a full-fledged (separate) Git repository for each
of the projects, I propose to have a ``dump'' repository in which there
are several independent branches (`lisp', `channel', `eth-*', ...)
containing the respective files.  On these branches, the projects can
evolve until they ``are given birth'': until they are published in a
stand-alone repository.  This is clearly the right thing to do for
projects where it is not yet certain if they'll persist at all
(proc_proxy, for example); others will be in their top-level repositories
right now: procfs for one example.  As a sequel, this dump repository is
then also meant for developers to publish new stuff they're working on,
etc. (unless that is based on other Hurd code, for example, and thus is
to be published as a branch of the Hurd repository).

Your thoughts?


Regards,
 Thomas

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