Hi, I'm not directly involved and William is probably not the best person to ask. Just two links (it's late)
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/z4jPFf_vlRY/discussion http://wiki.sagemath.org/WorkflowSEP Harald On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Anne Schilling <a...@math.ucdavis.edu>wrote: > Dear William and Sage-Git developers! > > At the current conference we had some discussions regarding the > planned move to git in Sage. We have a couple of questions how you > envision the change (in particular in view of discussing the > workflow at Google that Jason Bandlow described to us). > > (1) Will the move mean that sage developers will be able to pull > the latest "release" from the merge manager with git instead of > having to download the latest version of Sage each time and having to > recompile the code with make? This would be a huge win since in > particular this would mean for the Sage-combinat queue that we would > not have to maintain it for various versions of Sage any longer since > each developer can just pull and update to the latest version. > > Not having this feature would be a huge hurdle for the Sage-combinat queue > since we do not know how to handle the fact that our users/developers may > be > running different versions of Sage and hence would constantly rebase > their patches on top of their current version of sage. > It would also save a lot of time! > > (2) Will you get rid of the trac server and integrate the > submission of patches into the git workflow? This could be in the > form of a git command that submits and then makes a website with > the diffs where the reviewer can add comments. > > Harald, if you can address any of these questions in your talk > tomorrow, that would be great! > > Anne > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.
