Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-08-01 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > It's delusional to think that the problems of the Hurd are related to > a choice of the version control system. Well, part of the problems are. We have to start somewhere. And fixing the VCS issue seems the most trivial, so

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > It would be a good idea to have SVN running on the Hurd before > switching. It is running, at least svn+ssh:// works fine for me. I have also just uploaded subversion packages to ftp.debian.org, they should be available to Debi

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:13:34 -0400 (EDT), Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize no matter what we do, people are going to be upset, but its > hurting the project as a whole staying on CVS. It's delusional to think that the problems of the Hurd are related to a choice of the ver

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I also like mercurial, although I'm not picky (I used monotone for quite a long time, but anything is a major improvement over CVS). Savannah offers CVS, git, and arch. arch and git are both decentralized, altough I find arch very difficult to use. A

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
This is sadly a very bad idea; it is bad because it was tried and failed. This is how the ams-branch worked. All the patches in that branch have been proven stable, still, none of them are applied to the trunk. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.o

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Banck dies 25/07/2007 hora 00:01: > Adding a git repository mirroring the (master) CVS repository at > savannah would be cool I guess, but I am not sure switching over to > git at this point has any big advantages compared to the (also > present) drawbacks. What drawbacks do you se

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:49:12PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Maybe it would help to lower entry barriers for the project. A > distributed version control helps technically. What I think is most important is that people can easily locally branch/merge the master (CVS) repository with thei

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Casadevall dies 23/07/2007 hora 17:53: > When I joined [Castle Infinity], development was a complete mess > because of similar issues we had here (lack of organization, lack of > motivation/time by elder members). The first thing I did once I > realized was going on was locked our S

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Casadevall
I believe antrik hit the nail on the head (and I apologize for not being active on the lists; real life caught up with me). Watching how things are being done, I find it insane that as it stands I have to patch the sources so heavily to get a usable system (The 2GB for patch ext2fs has been sittin

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-22 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:36:32PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > There may be a misunderstanding. Two different issues were raised: > getting Hurd-related changes into Glibc, and getting changes into the > Hurd. Well yes. While the glibc issue seems to have turned out mostly a communica

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Stallman
There may be a misunderstanding. Two different issues were raised: getting Hurd-related changes into Glibc, and getting changes into the Hurd. Here I'm talking about appointing another Hurd maintainer to get changes installed in the Hurd itself. ___ B

Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:53:47PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > [Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc.] > Maybe we need to add another Hurd maintainer who will devote > more time to this. Is there someone who would like to volunteer? I've already been proposing this two or three