Re: Proposal for inclusion of Straw in the Gnome CVS

[Juri Pakaste <juri iki fi>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 01:33, Christian Rose wrote:
> tis 2003-12-09 klockan 00.04 skrev Mikael Hallendal:
> > Hmm ,, just saw in Juri's blog that he intented to make the GNOME CVS
> > module a read only one, with the main repo in arch. Then I don't see any
> > point in having it in GNOME CVS. 
> > 
> > The main benefits of having it in GNOME CVS is imho to have the
> > translators being able to work directly against the CVS and to have
> > others that want to contribute being able to work against the same CVS
> > as they are already working (and having accounts).
> > 
> > Having it in Arch and sync it every know and then doesn't seem to give
> > much compared to having people that want to try it out using the
> > tarballs instead.
> 
> If Juri is prepared to manually sync all changes made in CVS with his
> arch repository¹, then I don't see why not. Having the full source
> available in GNOME CVS definately helps translators.

Yeah, sorry for the unclear wording. The idea is to sync changes back
from CVS too.

> ¹ Although personally, I must admit I cannot understand why anyone would
> go through this amount of pain with syncing with cvs to be able to keep
> the master source in arch. I guess arch must be really good to be worth
> it...

Well, someone has to do it, otherwise we'll be stuck with CVS forever
:-)

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[ Juri Pakaste / juri iki fi / http://www.iki.fi/juri/ ]

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