Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-11-01 Thread Didier Vidal
Le dim 30/10/2005 à 20:15, Josh Sled a écrit : > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 20:01 +0100, Didier Vidal wrote: > > I've always wondered why the commits are systematically sent to > > gnucash-patches... This results in noise and an additional chance to > > forget or loose patches (since no dedicated tool e

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 31 October 2005 11:01 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 22:50 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Josh, should I have access under the developer URL? > > You may need to use `svn co svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[...]` to > change the user being ssh-authenticated. Doh! Working now.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-31 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 22:50 +, Neil Williams wrote: > Josh, should I have access under the developer URL? Yes. If you can use cvs, then you should be able to use svn+ssh ... it's the same mechanism used to invoke both. > $ svn checkout > svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/gnuca

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 22 October 2005 11:04 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > svn.gnucash.org is setup and resolves (thanks Linas! :), so the various > base URLs look like: > > anonymous: http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk > developer: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk Josh, should I have acces

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 22 October 2005 11:04 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > One thing cvs2svn does /not/ provide (that I can see, anyways) is the > migration of the contents of the .cvsignore files into subversion's > 'svn:ignore' directory-property. Perhaps someone wants to cut their teeth > on subversion by doing

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-30 Thread Arnout Engelen
Josh Sled wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:50:36PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: | >Something like | >http://www.goshaky.com/goshaky-distfiles/svn2rss/ | >might be useful once SVN is in use - and rss feed of svn commits. | | RSS feeds are quite useful in their own ways Wouldn't be too hard

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-30 Thread Arnout Engelen
Josh Sled wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:50:36PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: | |Something like | |http://www.goshaky.com/goshaky-distfiles/svn2rss/ | |might be useful once SVN is in use - and rss feed of svn commits. | | I have no objection to this, but I don't see why it would be useful to

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-30 Thread Josh Sled
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 20:01 +0100, Didier Vidal wrote: > I've always wondered why the commits are systematically sent to > gnucash-patches... This results in noise and an additional chance to > forget or loose patches (since no dedicated tool exists to manage them). > > Why not just sending the pa

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-30 Thread Didier Vidal
Sorry for answering late to this email. I was traveling last week, and was away from my email... My comment is just about the following specific point: [...] > I've setup the post-commit hook to mail the changeset diffs to > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Note that a seperate gnucash-patches mail of > only

Re: Gnucash web site, Was: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:35 +0100, Adrian Simmons wrote: > Chris Lyttle wrote: > > too many people having access and no control. > That's part of the point of a CMS like Drupal. You still only need one person > to > install and maintain the actual CMS, but you can set up members of the site > wi

Gnucash web site, Was: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-26 Thread Adrian Simmons
Chris Lyttle wrote: too many people having access and no control. That's part of the point of a CMS like Drupal. You still only need one person to install and maintain the actual CMS, but you can set up members of the site with varying levels of access. Admin, Senior editor, content editor etc,

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:58:36PM -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > Just to add to this, there are 2 people who have access to change the > gnucash website, Linas and myself. My access is somewhat limited (only > to the parts that Linas has specifically added me to) but I can change > what I need to. I

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-26 Thread Adrian Simmons
Derek Atkins wrote: Basically, yes. It's Linas' personal machine and he doesn't want just anybody to have shell access. Perfectly understandable. Moving the site to a CMS might well be an issue then, given the potential extra overhead. I have no objection to this, but I don't see why it wou

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
Just to add to this, there are 2 people who have access to change the gnucash website, Linas and myself. My access is somewhat limited (only to the parts that Linas has specifically added me to) but I can change what I need to. I tend not to make any major changes without consulting Linas as it is

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:12:31PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:00:35PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > | On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:14:46AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote: > | > So. > | > > | > Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my > | > wor

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:50:36PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: | >>I can ask. I know he's been really really busy.. He might be | >>amenable to some CVS/SVN push into the web server.. I don't know. | >Something like | >http://www.goshaky.com/goshaky-distfiles/svn2rss/ | >might be useful once SVN

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Adrian Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: and even our own WWW server (even if access is somewhat restricted). And it's restricted because? Hosted in someone else's web space? Basically, yes. It's Linas' personal machine and he doesn't want just anybody to have shell access. Similarly,

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Adrian Simmons
Derek Atkins wrote: Trac also has a patch tracker, so we could use that, too. Trac certainly looks promising, I've looked at it before, but it seemed too much for my one-man-webdev setup. and even our own WWW server (even if access is somewhat restricted). And it's restricted because? Hosted

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:55:13PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: | Yes. Our web site needs 50-75% less words, and more appropriate ones. FWIW, I had cause to go to the Evolution site [1] recently, and I consider it a model of an excellent project site: pretty, clean, minimalist, content-rich yet conc

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:00:35PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: | On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:14:46AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote: | > So. | > | > Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my | > workstation, diddle away using my own local personal branch, submit frequent

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:14:46AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote: > > So. > > Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my > workstation, diddle away using my own local personal branch, submit frequent > patchsets to the list, and when all is said and done, submit my branch

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:16:51AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: | developers on code management. Some method of clearly attributing branches to | particular goals beyond a short, cryptic, branch name. "short, cryptic, branch name[s]" such as? | 3. More acceptance that new developers don't nece

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just because it's *technically* possible doesn't mean there's not a > problem. (It just means there's no technical problem.) The real > problem is PSYCHOLOGICAL. Email is final. For whatever reason, and You never try to solve a social problem with

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:09:23PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: | So we agree, yes? :) Sounds like we mostly do, yes. I don't think branches are needed for "all" development, but they can be useful. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/jsled/ | a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Simmons wrote: | Neil Williams wrote: | |> 4. Has anyone seriously considered using the SourceForge project more? | | Personally I find SF painfully slow and clunky. A slow site is better than a clo

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Simmons wrote: | Neil Williams wrote: | |> 4. Has anyone seriously considered using the SourceForge project more? | | Personally I find SF painfully slow and clunky. A slow site is better than a closed site! :-) |> 5. More write access to onl

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Dan Widyono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: So. Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my workstation, diddle away using my own local personal branch, submit frequent patchsets to the list, and when all is said and done, submit my branch somehow to the central repos

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Widyono
So. Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my workstation, diddle away using my own local personal branch, submit frequent patchsets to the list, and when all is said and done, submit my branch somehow to the central repository for safekeeping? Dan W. _

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Adrian Simmons
Neil Williams wrote: 4. Has anyone seriously considered using the SourceForge project more? Personally I find SF painfully slow and clunky. 5. More write access to online information outside the mailing list archives. The gnucash.org website is not being updated, new documentation has to go on

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Adrian Simmons
First, a little Hello, I'm Adrian Simmons and I've been subscribed to gnucash-user for some time, but decided I'd come and lurk here for a while, and though I'm only a web geek at least see if I can help out somewhere. I run Gnucash on OS X via Fink. Chris Shoemaker wrote: Giving one more pe

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 3:26 am, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:37:07PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: > > > I've spent more time refreshing out-of-tree patches that I have > > > actually developing code! (ok, not really, but a LOT of time, it's a > > > PITA.) > > > > You shoul

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:37:07PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:37 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > Maybe that's a reasonable criteria for giving someone commit access to > > the OneTrueBuild. But, that's not reasonable criteria for giving > > someone access to conven

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread David Hampton
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:37 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > Maybe that's a reasonable criteria for giving someone commit access to > the OneTrueBuild. But, that's not reasonable criteria for giving > someone access to convenient SCM. That's like saying: We love for > people to join us on this tr

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:20:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>My point is not so much "distributed is better than centralized", as > >>it is "lower the barriers to new developers by letting them share code > >>early and often." Distributed SCM is *one* w

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:48:22PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > PS: I still don't agree with your premise that the gnucash project needs > to radically change its development processes in order to increase the > number of fringe developers. Histori

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:59:18PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > | Well, I think *all* development should be on branches. > > Ick. Now we have to fight about the benefits of Continuous Integration. :) I can't tell if you're saying

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: | Well, I think *all* development should be on branches. Ick. Now we have to fight about the benefits of Continuous Integration. :) (Strangely, its argument [1] has a similar form: "[...] fundamental shift to the whole development

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, I think *all* development should be on branches. I disagree. There is PLENTY of development that doesn't need to be done on a branch. When I wrote the business features, there's no reason that all the code in src/business had to be on a bran

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Derek, I apologize for dredging up the past like that. I said I wanted to remain constructive, but my actions said otherwise. I wish I could take it back. I /will/ try to exercise more self-control in the future. Please forgive me. I sti

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 10/25/05, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that historically the commiters have been restricted to > a trusted > group of people, but there are a few "new" developers who have not yet been > given commit access. Honestly I can only think of one developer in > particular.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:16:57PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:42 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > If you'd like some more detailed info, I'd recommend: > > [5] for the heart of the issue in concise terms > > [6] for an good overview of the main SCM debate > > [8] for

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:20:15PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:52 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > It kind of makes me want to respond like others have [1], > > but I want to remain constructive. > > If you wanted to remain constructive you wouldn't have posted that

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread David Hampton
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:42 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > If you'd like some more detailed info, I'd recommend: > [5] for the heart of the issue in concise terms > [6] for an good overview of the main SCM debate > [8] for an overview of SCM softwares available > [1, 2, 7] for some informative Ar

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > Here's a fun link to git's author's opinion on the matter: > > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0594.html > > > > The main point here is that per file tracking is wrong - and I would > > agree. Maybe I'm missing something, but fr

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread David Hampton
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:52 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > It kind of makes me want to respond like others have [1], > but I want to remain constructive. If you wanted to remain constructive you wouldn't have posted that URL. David ___ gnucash-devel

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills > >>allows > >>me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted. I'm > >>not sure SVN meets that

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:20:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > The problem is that historically the commiters have been restricted > to a trusted group of people, I disagree that that's the problem, but, assuming you're right... How's that strategy been working for GnuCash over the past 3 years?

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills allows me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted. I'm not sure SVN meets that criterion, but CVS does. That was the main motivation for us moving from SCCS to

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:38:35PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > > I thought this was the main point of SVN, and the motivation for > > > replacing CVS - that it has atomic changesets that affect many files. > > > > Please see: http://subversi

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My point is not so much "distributed is better than centralized", as it is "lower the barriers to new developers by letting them share code early and often." Distributed SCM is *one* way to do that. I agree with with Chris on this one. I am not much of a de

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > I thought this was the main point of SVN, and the motivation for > > replacing CVS - that it has atomic changesets that affect many files. > > Please see: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#changesets > > for a rather biased, but not unhelpful a

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2005-24-10 at 10:53 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > The actual state of things is that there are *very* few developers, > and I think the survival of gnucash depends on attracting more. That > doesn't necessarily require a distributed model, but I think one key > step is providing the con

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:37:52PM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote: > > Dear Chris, > > >** Changesets ** > >** Centralized vs. Distributed ** > > In summary, I think there are two main reasons for looking > >further than SVN for SCM software. 1) Changesets are a big > >convenience for all deve

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Chris, ** Changesets ** ** Centralized vs. Distributed ** In summary, I think there are two main reasons for looking further than SVN for SCM software. 1) Changesets are a big convenience for all developers. 2) Distributed SCM lets fringe developers benefit from a real SCM, too.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-23 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > Alternatively, for another breed of SCMs the model is: the > repository is a project that has history, which happens to be > represented by files. This distinction may (or may not?) seem subtle > but it is HUGE. This is the whole concept of >

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:09:36PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > Alternatively, for another breed of SCMs the model is: the > > repository is a project that has history, which happens to be > > represented by files. This distinction ma

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Shoemaker
SVN is clearly superior to CVS. SVN basically seems like a faster, less-annoying, more-featureful version of CVS. But, like CVS, it was never intended to be a SCM system [1], it's just a version control system. Since we're obviously writing software, I think a real SCM has compelling adv

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-22 Thread Conrad Canterford
Generally, I'm happy with the proposed changes, and personally, I don't see anything wrong with invalidating the old names, especially as we're getting close to doing a new release branch anyway. The proposed structure looks fine to me. Of course, since I'm not doing any active development, none o

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-22 Thread Josh Sled
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 18:50 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > I tried to view a diff and got this: Hmm, I read comments mentioning something like this, but didn't see it myself. Admittedly, I didn't test too much. In the last released viewcvs (0.9.4), the subversion support seems to be broken. Th

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-22 Thread Chris Shoemaker
I tried to view a diff and got this: An Exception Has Occurred Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/viewcvs-1.0/lib/viewcvs.py", line 3362, in main request.run_viewcvs() File "/usr/lib/viewcvs-1.0/lib/viewcvs.py", line 379, in run_viewcvs self.view_func(s

Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-22 Thread Josh Sled
Recently we've been planning on moving the GnuCash repository from CVS to Subversion. This week I've made the changes on cvs.gnucash.org to enable anonymous and developer access to a subversion repository. This encompases: - http-style anonymous access - svn+ssh authenticated developer acce