Re: DVCS

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Hi,

I can't really see us coming to a consensus on this topic. Even after  
a vote we would have people continuing to use Bazaar if Git win and  
vice verse. GNOME is by nature a distributed project with a lot of sub  
modules, maintainers and thus preferences.

I personally think our time and energy would be better spent on  
finding ways to manage GNOME development with this diversity of  
version control system (and public repositories).

Translations is often brought up as a tricky part for this, can we  
handle them in a way where they are agnostic to the VCS system the  
modules happen to be in. I know back in the days when we had Planner  
on Codefactory servers it was a pain as the translation "system" we  
used required the translators to commit directly into the CVS/SVN  
modules.

Can we come up with a better way of handling this?

We already have our stack spread out over a number of different  
repository services and VCS systems, I think it's time we come to term  
with the fact that this is the way GNOME is built (and imho should be  
built).

Cheers,
  Micke

28 okt 2008 kl. 17.00 skrev Behdad Esfahbod:

> Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:10 +0000, John Carr wrote:
> > > > Lets not turn this into yet another bazaar vs. git war cause we
> > > > already had plenty of that and nothing good comes out of that.
> > > I think the vote should be down to the foundation members.
> >
> > I actually think that, if any, the vote should be down to the GNOME  
> > SVN
> > users. But all of them (or at least those who care enough to vote).
>
> Agreed.  Only recently active SVN users.  Why should past  
> contributors who do
> not commit anymore decide what DVCS tool *I* use?
>
> > Claudio
>
> behdad
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