Re: [Kicad-developers] Revisiting the Git decision - document git-bzr bridge!
On 5 February 2014 22:35, Blair Bonnett blair.bonn...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 February 2014 10:31, Jake j...@spaz.org wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Brian Sidebotham wrote: On 5 February 2014 10:11, Jake j...@spaz.org wrote: I just want to say the same thing that a lot of other people have been saying for a long time. Bazaar is holding kicad back. I am yet another developer who would be contributing to improving the project if it weren't kept in an arcane and frustrating VCS. So, if you're putting letters like this in a pile somewhere, just go ahead and put this one in the pile. I really would love it if kicad went to git, not just to make it easy for me to contribute, but for lots and lots of people who would jump in and help. thank you for everything you've done and all that you will do -jake Hi Jake, Did you read the whole of this subject? Go ahead and use Git if you want, no-one is going to stop you. Links have been provided on information to allow you to develop using Git. We look forward to your contributions. Best Regards, Brian. Hi Brian, I assume you're referring to git-bzr-ng which I was told about on irc. Supposedly this can allow a git user to interact with the bazaar system transparently. That would be great, except i can't get it to work. snip thank you -jake Hi Jake, I think Brian was referring to the GitHub mirror workflow that has been discussed in this thread in the last 24 hours. The following messages are the key ones in this workflow discussion: 1: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12148.html 2: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12159.html 3: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12160.html 4: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12161.html In fact, Henner has already submitted two patches to this mailing list based on this workflow, so it seems to be quite usable in practice. I guess we could document this workflow on the KiCad website, say under the KiCad development page ( http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/KiCad+Development ). Maybe once the core developers have given their blessing that it works from their side as well? Regards, Blair Hi Guys, Sorry last night was wiped out with family stuff so I didn't get chance to update kicad-pcb.org. I will try and get it done tonight, but in the meantime use the instructions on the Inkscape developer wiki and let us know how you get on. Best Regards, Brian. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Kicad-developers] Revisiting the Git decision - document git-bzr bridge!
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Blair Bonnett wrote: Hi Jake, I think Brian was referring to the GitHub mirror workflow that has been discussed in this thread in the last 24 hours. The following messages are the key ones in this workflow discussion: 1: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12148.html 2: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12159.html 3: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12160.html 4: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12161.html In fact, Henner has already submitted two patches to this mailing list based on this workflow, so it seems to be quite usable in practice. I guess we could document this workflow on the KiCad website, say under the KiCad development page ( http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/KiCad+Development ). Maybe once the core developers have given their blessing that it works from their side as well? Regards, Blair Thank you Blair, this is a fine solution for me. I wish I had known about this all along and there would have been no need for me to take up all this space about the issue! In my opinion this git mirror, along with build instructions (which may be as simple as use scripts/kicad-install.sh instead of make install) should be front and center on the pages where developers might end up. This may also apply, but i'm not sure exactly how yet: (thanks Povilas) https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/wiki right now when i google for download kicad the first link is this: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download+Kicad which is an empty page that says only Page moved to _here_ which is a link to: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download The option for KiCad source code and KiCad bleeding edge version both link to here: https://launchpad.net/kicad and on that page, a developer wishing to help would probably click on Code repository (contributions are welcome): https://code.launchpad.net/kicad and I think this would be a good place to put help for people who only know git, such as a note about the github mirror (and yet another link) of course the link you mentioned: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/KiCad+Development is the place where developers wanting to help SHOULD be clicking, but they could end up at either place depending on how they search for stuff. Thank you for the github mirror, i look forward to using it to help out! -jake___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
