On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote:
> Dear Developers, > > I've been following the debate regarding development models with some > interest. It sounds as though some people are ready to move to git now. > While I'm not thrilled about that (I don't care for git very much), I think > it makes a lot of good sense. > A move to a distributed model of development would definitely facilitate > the development of complex features. For that reason, I'm willing to try and > figure out git again, or at least bzr-git so that I can continue with my > tinkering patch submission. I assume that the workflow for patches would > stay the same? > > With all that said, I did have a question regarding our existing > infrastructure. Whatever model we end up settling on, would it be possible > to mirror the git master branch to SVN? (Basically the same thing we do for > the git users, except in reverse.) > > As soon as I have time, my first project is to set up testing branches on > Launchpad for trunk, 2.0, and the 1.6 series. This is so that we can > automatically generate nightly builds for Ubuntu users. When everything is > working, the whole system will be automated via launchpad recipes. > > These branches are linked to the existing SVN infrastructure, though. > Jumping the hoops to link to a new git infrastructure would be a pretty > major undertaking. Continuing to pull from the existing SVN, though, if it > were mirrored to git-master, would be pretty trivial. > > Would it be difficult to mirror development from git? > Probably not, but I don't understand the problem here. What are these branches about ? What are launchpad recipes ? How are the branches linked to SVN infrastructure ? Vincent
