Re: [gnome-desktop-testing] Using Launchpad as the main repository



Hello,

I've just seen this:
http://blog.launchpad.net/code/git-branch-imports-now-in-public-beta

and I'm wondering if it would make things easier to have a git import instead of
a svn import. What do you think?

Best regards,
    Javier

Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> Yeah, it has been fairly complicated...
> 
> I think we should keep the upstream/distro-neutral codebase. It would
> just require a bit of discipline, if we keep just this one rule, maybe
> it will be manageable:
> - Merges go just one direction, from the GNOME tree to the LP tree.
> 
> And from that the following is derived:
> - Anything that is not Ubuntu-specific should go directly to the GNOME
> git tree.
> - Non-GNOME module tests should go to the LP bzr tree.
> 
> I am not volunteering for any special roles here, so those are just my
> 2c :)
> 
> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ara Pulido wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Since we started the project in GNOME SVN very little (or none)
>> contribution is being made directly to Subversion. Everybody keeps using
>> the Launchpad ubuntu-desktop-testing project [1].
>>
>> I think this is because most of the people that started to collaborate
>> in this project started through Ubuntu and the project was more advanced
>> there. Also, not having to provide patches, makes it much easier for new
>> comers to start collaborating with the project.
>>
>> So, my proposal is:
>>
>> Should we change the Ubuntu Desktop Testing project in Launchpad to be
>> called just Desktop Testing and point in the GNOME documentation to this
>> Launchpad project.
>>
>> If, later on, some one want to set up a GIT module to maintain, that's
>> fine, you could use something like git-bzr [2] to be synchronized. 
>>
>> What do you guys think? 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ara.
>>
>> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-testing
>> [2] http://github.com/pieter/git-bzr/tree/master
>>
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