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

[Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com>]

Yes,

SVN is now deprecated in GNOME, GIT is now used.

So, yes, we should move to a GIT import (eventually).

Cheers,
Ara.

Javier Collado wrote:
> 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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>
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