Re: Git mirror of a bzr tree

[Michael Terry <michael terry canonical com>]

On 05/20/2011 07:01 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:56:36PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > that's actually what 'Core' is about. So I think our expectations of
> > GNOME Core differ.
> PS: I think deja dup being in Apps is currently a success. We have
> something which wouldn't be accepted during 2.x, now in the 3.x
> moduledulesets thanks to the Apps distinction.
>
> Your proposal implied to me that you wanted to more everything over.
> It is not, so bit confusing for me and needs thought/discussion so there
> can be a clear policy.

Well, I proposed it as a Feature.  It wasn't clear to me at the time 
that that would imply being Core and moving infrastructure.

But regardless of whichever label it ends up with, I want to lower 
barriers to participation.  Hence the git mirror request (about which, 
more below).

>  It's more about translators being able to commit things, random
>  developers wanting to commit stuff (after approval, or just commit in
>  case of a build fix), etc. There is also some integration regarding doap
>  files and whatnot.


There are at least three distinct use cases here:

1) GNOME dev wants to test/build DD.  Jhbuild with bzr works fine here.

2) GNOME dev wants to create a patch for DD.  A git mirror might help 
here, since that dev would be able to use 'commit', 'format-patch', and 
such.  Not sure if that's worth a git mirror if it's difficult, but that 
extra ease was what I was going for.  That dev would still need to use 
LP to pass the patch along to me.

3) GNOME dev/translator wants to commit directly to DD.  As I've 
discussed elsewhere, I think there are technical paths to make this 
easier without actually being on GNOME infrastructure (have trunk be 
owned by a ~gnome-dev team in LP that is maybe automatically sync'd with 
GNOME infrastructure, additionally have the GNOME translation team in LP 
own translations).  But that hasn't taken off and is probably a 
discussion for d-d-l anyway.  But you're right that a mirror wouldn't 
help there.

-mt