Re: New module proposal: Clutter core

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 18:41 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> > I'm pretty sure the GNOME infrastructure could do the same thing: get
> > the POT file from git.clutter-project.org (it's generated by gettext and
> > stored in the repository anyway); send me an email with the PO file once
> > the coordinator has reviewed the contribution. I could even allow commit
> > access to a branch, or a user repository that I can pull from.
> 
> That would work (in might be a good idea to implement for git
> repositories in general). We didn't manage to commit to GNOME git yet
> though and I doubt it would be easier on other repositories.

The blocker is not technical, but more about the policy to accept
commits from an application (and create security hooks). I know it's on
Christer's TODO so there is some hope :-)

If clutter is open to give D-L a commit access, we could try to set up
something in the not so long-term...

Cheers,

Claude

>  It's
> something that could be considered in long-term, also for some
> freedesktop modules.
> 
> > alternatively, GNOME could have a private Clutter core repository for
> > i18n purposes alone - after all, we're using Git.
> 
> We do that for some other modules and it works OK.
> 
> Note: As stated before I am not so much concerned about clutter itself
> but about our general policy on handling external repositories. For git
> it might kind of work but for other things like launchpad it could
> become worse.
> 
> Regards,
> Johannes