Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > >> If there are interest I'll try to setup a git tree that you can clone and > >> set > >> up as a git-svn tree. (I'll even write up a wiki page to explain briefly > >> how > >> to do that.) > > > | this is already done on git.or.cz, though not under our control (yet:) > | skeleton of the wiki page is already done too. > > That looked just like a mirror, and the wiki seemed to lack info on how > to turn that into a git-svn clone?
i belive this is possible, but i must admit i was never interested more to investigate :) > | something more is imho needed only in case we want officially switch to git > | repo (do we?). > > I do not agree completely. If we are going to switch (and personally I > think we should), you/we need to get more feel for how to use git. > And even if some lyx devvies already use git, I think all (or close to) > should try it out. And I think when we try it out we should try to get > the best possible experience out of it. this is a question of a poll. if most of the people are ok with svn theres no substatintial merit in changing to git. git-svn provides quite sufficient interface. > (And imo that means an officialy set up git repo that is created for > this purpose in the way we imagine it would be done if we really made > the switch (proper svn.authorsfile f.ex.)) > > | personally i'm in favour of our own box like aussie in the past > | compared to sf solutions etc. although there is the problem that we do not > have > | any admin wanting to manage it there are many advantages of such dedicated > | machine. > > I'd like you to name some... for example i like to have personal web pages so i can run things like doxygen generated docs for lyx, i like other people pages like Jose's archeology page, i like all the stuff Christian is providing with wiki which i doubt would be possible under sf, i like the way we run svn commit annoucements, also @lyx.org mail address, sharing disk space with other devs when we want exchange something and generally the overall control of all the services on one place. > I only know of a few and as of current they > seem to be of very little importance. I belive the benefit of not having > to handle the daily (or yearly) churn of chores is a really good thing. last year i spent quite lot of time to pinpoint some reasonable mem configuration for aussie demons so we are not locked by swapping again and again - still it was worth it. thats why i support Richard's proposal. pavel
