Re: DVCS

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 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.

It's not just translation.  I proposed this before but Olav says two systems
is simply not within our sysadmin budget.  Every script needs to be taught to
handle both, etc.

Can we get away from central hosting on gnome.org servers?  Don't know.  That
seems to have been what this whole situation has been getting us to.  Federico
hosts his projects on gitorious.  Myself and many around me just push their
git trees on their freedesktop.org account.  Bzr-liking people use launchpad.

What I like to see is that the release team to shows some leadership and sit
down and decide this.  I'm sure either way we decide we can find someone to do
the actual work.

behdad

> 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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