On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:38:06PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > I think it's about time to conclude this version control discussion for now, > make a decision based on the current consensus, postpone further discussion > into next year, and continue coding on the gnome2 port for now.
Agreed. > > >From what we can see in the -devel and -patches discussion, everyone agrees > that we should make a transition from CVS to a more modern version control > system. Also, everyone would agree that SVN is in fact such a more modern > version control system. Josh's test setup for the gnucash repository on SVN > works already quite nice and gives a good impression of the benefits from SVN > (like, "svn diff" for the full commit of one person at one time, or in other > words: the full changeset can be viewed easily). > > There is no general agreement on whether a dedicated SCM like git would offer > enough additional benefit so that a transition of the gnucash repository to > such an SCM would be a good decision at this point in time. (For example, I > tend to agree that there is enough additional benefit in such a move, but as > I said, there is no general agreement.) s/dedicated/distributed/? > > I would therefore propose that we decide on the transition to Subversion > *now*, and that this transition should happen in the next 1-2 weeks. If we're moving to svn, let's do it *soon*. I think Josh said "in a couple weeks" at the *beginning* of this thread. > > @David Hampton: Would you suggest to do the gnome2-branch merging to HEAD > still in CVS, and make the transition to SVN after that? Or would you suggest > that we can make the SVN-transition with the current repository, so that the > gnome2-branch merging to HEAD will be done in SVN? If the former, then I > would kindly ask whether the gnome2->HEAD merge could be done ASAP; if the > latter, I would suggest that the transition to SVN should be done in the next > 1-2 weeks. At the risk of delay, I would recommend do the merge before the move. > > Additionally, I would propose that we stop the discussion of the SCM issue > now > and reconsider this again at a later point in time (e.g., in six months from > now), when we can already see whether some of the source control issues are > already resolved by using SVN instead of CVS. Good proposal. -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel