[Spice-devel] Upstream UsbDk?

[Yuri Benditovich]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:44 PM Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:39 PM Yuri Benditovich
> <yuri.benditovich at daynix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Due to some historical reasons the UsbDk is maintained at
> https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk and issues there are under monitoring
> (according to rumors there were some problem with accounts/rights/etc on
> the freedesktop).
> > It looks like there was working mirror at freedesktop but some time ago
> it stopped working (this might be related to migration of repositories
> under freedesktop).
> > Anyway, filing bugs on https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk is currently the
> best option as we are not subscribed on notifications of freedesktop.
>
> Ok, so spice usbdk is a mirror and github is the upstream / homepage.
> But you do official releases in
> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/usbdk/ ? This should be
> clarified in https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/blob/master/README.md,
> and how to contribute.
>

The releases are published on spice-space as well as on github (we usually
ask people from spice team to place them on spice-space).
Regarding 'how to contribute' - github has 'pull requests' for that.


>
> I think we should remove the obsolete / unmaintained repositories from
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/, it creates unnecessary
> confusion.
>
> > Best regards,
> > Yuri
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:53 PM Marc-André Lureau <
> marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Where is UsbDk officially maintained? What is the homepage? Where
> >> should I file bugs?
> >>
> >> Apparently, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/usbdk should be
> >> the upstream.
> >>
> >> But Daynix maintains its own on github
> >> https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk, which is more recent, and more
> >> active, looking at issues activity and commits.
> >>
> >> But apparently spice was/is the home for release
> >> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/usbdk/ ?
> >>
> >> Can this be clarified?
> >>
> >> (fwiw, I think we could do some cleanups in very old/outdated
> >> repositories from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice: delete them or
> >> move them to an attic/ subdir?)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Marc-André Lureau
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>
>
>
> --
> Marc-André Lureau
>
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