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

[Eitan Isaacson <eitan ascender com>]

I did some local tests with git-bzr, but if the LP feature is writable
(ie. push to the bzr branch, and it pushes to git's origin), than this
is a perfect solution.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com> wrote:
> 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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