Re: KNetworkManager SCM

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:14 +0100, Timo Hoenig wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > As I'm receiving more and more requests on KNetworkManager and as the
> > development is near a 0.1 release, I'd like to know which source code
> > repository you think public development of KNetworkManager should take
> > place.
> > 
> > Basically there are two options:  I've received an offer to put
> > KNetworkManager into GNOME CVS as well as KDE SVN.  Personally, I've got
> > no preference with regard to the location -- I just like SVN more than
> > CVS.  Anyway.

GNOME is switching from CVS to SVN Real Soon Now(tm). As in next weekend
unless I'm mistaken.

> > While GNOME CVS would be better as everything is in one place and NM
> > changes could be more easily adopted to KNetworkManager, it would also
> > mean that we'd have to hook up the developers with accounts on
> > gnome.org.  KDE SVN would bring the downside of not having everything in
> > one place, but I guess the willing ones are already equipped with an
> > account to hack on KNetworkManager.
> > 
> > Comments?  Or should I simply throw dice ;-)
> 
> Third option: freedesktop.org SVN (or CVS).  Chris Aillon and I were
> punting around the idea of putting NM onto freedesktop.org, since it
> really is desktop agnostic, a lot like HAL.  If there aren't any
> objections, I guess that's the options I'd prefer.

It's very difficult to deal with translations if you're hosted on fd.o
servers. I recommend that you at least keep the applet in GNOME CVS/SVN.

Cheers,
David