I’m sure you’re probably still catching up on all the updates and call to arms on the list of patches in patchwork, but I have one more announcement to make.

I was able to get our code hosted on Github: https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng

Over the next month, as we clear out patchwork, I’d like contributors to start “forking” crosstool-ng and opening “pull requests” to get code into mainline for crosstool-ng.

Why Github

For one, it’s widely used in other open-source projects and keeps me away from being an “BDFL” (Benevolent dictator for life). Top contributors can now be added as “Project contributors” that can commit code themselves.

Secondly, there is an issue tracker!!! https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/issues I’m no good at tracking issues on the mailing list. If I forget about the issue, it will hide on the mailing list until someone (the issue reporter) gets angry at me. Tracking the issue from the time it is reported until it is resolved will help crosstool-ng become a better tool!

There are many other reasons this better then what we currently have, but for now this is a good start.

Why not X (bitbucket, gitorious, etc..)

I’ve used them all. I prefer github, and so do most other people.

How is this transition going to work?

I personally have two remotes in my local git clone of crosstool-ng. My origin is currently the new github repository, and I have another remote for the crosstool-ng.org repository.

As we clear out patchworks, I will be applying those changes to crosstool-ng.org and then pushing those to github. As new pull requests come in from github, I will help work the pull requests into the github repository and push those changes to the crosstool-ng.org repository.

When patchwork is empty and there are no more patches to be worked there, I will turn off patchwork and the crosstool-ng.org git repository.

There might still be need for the server crosstool-ng.org is currently on, so that might stick around for a while.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Cheers,
-Bryan