Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

* Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-21 23:16]: > On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to > > > other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks for the summary. I think that's a fair assessment of where we are at. > > The offered software will be trac, svn, and moinmoin. I'm going to > look at darcs, and with the help of the haskell team and infra > determine if we can support it or not.

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, particularly > because of its repo-wide revisions that prevent

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

This is a follow up to Mark's (halcy0n's) thread regarding QA Policies and seemant's letter on herds, teams, and projects. I believe the way Gentoo is doing things is broken. There I have said it. The entire project has reached a level of being too political and trying to solve certain problems

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:14:53AM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > > > I find that developer growth as being a problem. Adding a developer to > > gentoo > > should be as easy as 1. has the user contributed numerous (~5+) p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ryan Phillips wrote: > > This is a follow up to Mark's (halcy0n's) thread regarding QA Policies and > > seemant's letter on herds, teams, and projects. > > > > I believe the way Gentoo is doing things is bro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Sure, then you get this: > > "Hey can I join?" > "OK" > "*adds user*" > -- 2 weeks later -- > "Anyone heard from user?" > "No" > The solution is to have them been an active contributor for say 6 months. -ryan pgpR35ZcUmZet.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ryan Phillips wrote: > > > > >The council should not vote on gleps are provide policy. They should > >be there to handle the money and world-wide problems. > > > >The developers should drive innovation; not the co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ryan Phillips wrote: [Fri Apr 28 2006, 12:14:53PM CDT] > > __Problem: Developer Growth__ > > I've seen suggestions before that one of the things limiting Gentoo's > growth right now is the hurdles involved in becoming

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Tim Yamin wrote: > >Speaking of which, has anybody done any tests with svk? > >(http://svk.elixus.org) > >And: http://svk.elixus.org/?WhySVK -- it would be interesting to compare > >checkout performance on it as well. > > I've been planning to do a more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ryan Phillips wrote: > >git - terrible with lots of tiny little files > > Can you provide some evidence to support this? > > I posted in more detail on SCMs elsewhere today. Sure. git only allows commits from the proje

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

"Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:42:40PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > cogito > > - Not practical > > * the lots of little files doesn't scale well with the size > > of the portage tre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

"Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ryan: > > I think you are talking about very old versions of Git: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:20:43PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > What I meant is, if you have a change within one directory pending > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

"Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > > > Second issue with git, is that with lots of tiny little files things > > don't work so well. I tried converting our portage tree in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

"Fernando J. Pereda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:49:18PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > the only option I saw was git-commit -o and you had to specify the > > files that you wanted to commit. > > > > I tried doing a git-com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Grant Goodyear schrieb: > >Some questions that need to be answered: > > > >* Can the repo be converted while maintaining the history? > >* How long does a full checkout take? > >* How much disk space does a full checkout require? > >* Is there a viewcvs eq

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Ryan, > > Ryan Phillips wrote: > >__Problem: Developer Growth__ > I've seen ebuilds from people who have written quite a bunch of ebuilds > and were really interested in understanding how they work, but the work &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union + suggestion for global dev conference (at bottom, if you want to skip)

Stuart Herbert wrote: > > I'm offering to lead the effort to establish a global Gentoo developer > conference, and to do whatever it takes to get everything we need to > make this happen. Now who's up for this? :) > > Best regards, > Stu > That sounds like a great idea. -Ryan -- gentoo-dev@g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Having fun with compression

Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > I had this random idea that many of our distfiles are .tar.gz while more > efficient compression methods exist. So I did some testing for fun: > > We have ~15k .tar.gz in distfiles. ~6500 .tar.bz2, ~2000 others. > A short run over 477 distfile

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

for a little > longer, until it's mature? The question is when is it mature? I've tried it and Paludis does work. There will always be bugs and feature requests. Its part of the development process. Ryan Phillips pgphGkWfkoHSr.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Retirement

ore. I am sure at some point I'll emerge from retirement. Happy Gentooing. Regards, Ryan Phillips -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiGxU6cLeDQrpxL8RAvVgAJ4tFZNEeFQe7vnAqOUXg

[gentoo-dev] Fox Package Changes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have in my bug list a rewrite of the fox packages written by Yaakov (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88924) . I want to spread the word and get some testing/comments for these before they go int

[gentoo-dev] New Fox Ebuilds Committed for testing

I have committed (and package.masked) new Fox ebuilds created by Yaakov Selkowitz for testing. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88924 I am sure there will be bug reports or requests. Please add them to the bug list. Regards, Ryan Phillips Gentoo Developer pgpeaaKwE46TP.pgp Description