[poky] Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Ryan D Phillips]

On 11/9/2010 12:31 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:05:29AM -0800, Scott Garman wrote:
>> On 11/09/2010 08:31 AM, Ryan_D_Phillips at Dell.com wrote:
>>> Good Day!
>>>
>>> My name is Ryan Phillips (irc: rphillips), a former Gentoo Linux
>>> Developer, currently a software developer architecting an embedded
>>> firmware solution on OE for my employer. With the release of Yocto,
>>> we are extremely interested in trying it out and possibly
>>> contributing to the project. My cohort working with me is Sean Hudson
>>> (irc: darknighte), and is someone who you may see contributions from
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> A major stumbling block we must work around is the restrictive
>>> firewall and git checkouts. We have found out the git-http-backend
>>> works extremely well, and are requesting this support on
>>> git.pokylinux.org. We suspect other people within larger corporations
>>> would have a similar problem, and by adding this support would help
>>> the community at large.
>>>
>

Hmm. I didn't mean to start a firestorm. Read only git-http-backend 
access is something that we would find useful. As an alternative, we can 
create repo.or.cz mirrors, but I'm not all that keen on this.

-ryan