On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:08:03 +0100 Loïc Minier <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Dec 08, 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> P.S. bzed, POX, isn't it time to move our packaging to git? So that I >> can just commit such patches in a branch and also so that we don't >> have to mess with the orig.tar.gz, svn-uscan and other things -- i.e. >> everything will be in one git repo, so users can just download, hit >> one command and they have a working package (as opposed to the current >> scheme, were they need to download svn, then setup some tarball >> directories, then setup svn-uscan, then execute it and only then they >> can actually build the package, so it's very annoying for casual users >> to setup the environment to contribute to the packaging) > > WARNING bikeshedding VCS discussion spotted! > > Executive suggestion: we wont be able to use the same VCS for all > packages; use whatever the top contributors prefer, not what all > contributors to all packages prefer. > I'll argue we want something different. We want VCS that will maximize participation. That means both keeping top contributors happpy and keeping it accessible to newcomers.
I don't think hg, bzr, or git obviously qualify as accesible. My vote, fwiw, is to stay with svn until we have a documented, accessible workflow with tool support. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
