NetBSD at GitHub

Official

NetBSD developers maintain GitHub presence at https://GitHub.com/NetBSD:

• https://github.com/NetBSD

GitHub NetBSD org membership

Anyone with a NetBSD.org account is eligible for an invitation to our organisation on GitHub; email your NetBSD.org and GitHub.com login names to cnst@ and/or joerg@. Once an invitation is furnished by GitHub, it must be accepted by the recipient. In order to publicly show your affiliation with the NetBSD organisation on GitHub, you must also toggle the organisation visibility setting from Private to Public (this membership setting affects public visibility both on your own public profile page as well as within the public https://GitHub.com/orgs/NetBSD/people page; the default is Private, and it cannot be toggled to Public by the owners of the org).

Official repositories on GitHub

The src, xsrc and pkgsrc repositories, each as a read-only copy, have been available under github.com/NetBSD since 2017-06:

• 2017-06: New home for the repository conversion

  CVSweb	Fossil	GitHub
  src	https://src.fossil.NetBSD.org/	https://github.com/NetBSD/src
  pkgsrc	https://pkgsrc.fossil.NetBSD.org/	https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc
  xsrc	https://xsrc.fossil.NetBSD.org/	https://github.com/NetBSD/xsrc

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History and Technical Details

Prior to 2017-06, an earlier generation of the export has been available under github.com/jsonn since 2011-07, which has been deprecated and discontinued in 2017-07 with the move to @NetBSD.

The export is maintained by joerg@ and performed through an intermediate step of converting the repositories from CVS into Fossil with cvs2fossil, which has been the process since 2011:

• 2011-10: EuroBSDcon: Fossilizing NetBSD: The road to modern version control
• https://www.sonnenberger.org/archive/cvs2fossil-20140502.tar.gz
• 2010-10: fossil-scm.org: Design Note: Scaling Fossil Up (pkgsrc)
• tech-repository
• cvs-migration

The core team has provided a statement on version control systems in 2015:

• 2015-01: Core statement on version control systems
• gitsofar

The pkgsrc repository has adopted a GitHub-friendly commit message policy in 2017, limiting the first line of the message to 65 characters:

• 2017-09: pkgsrc Commit Message Policy

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Unofficial

Additionally, an independent export of the src tree from CVS directly into Git is performed by IIJ at https://GitHub.com/IIJ-NetBSD/netbsd-src.

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GitHub Forks

src

• https://github.com/NetBSD/src/network/members
• https://github.com/jsonn/src/network/members
• https://github.com/IIJ-NetBSD/netbsd-src/network/members

pkgsrc

• https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/network/members
• https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc/network/members