Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-08-01 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It's delusional to think that the problems of the Hurd are related to a choice of the version control system. Well, part of the problems are. We have to start somewhere. And fixing the VCS issue seems the most trivial, so

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:13:34 -0400 (EDT), Michael Casadevall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize no matter what we do, people are going to be upset, but its hurting the project as a whole staying on CVS. It's delusional to think that the problems of the Hurd are related to a choice of the

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It would be a good idea to have SVN running on the Hurd before switching. It is running, at least svn+ssh:// works fine for me. I have also just uploaded subversion packages to ftp.debian.org, they should be available to

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
This is sadly a very bad idea; it is bad because it was tried and failed. This is how the ams-branch worked. All the patches in that branch have been proven stable, still, none of them are applied to the trunk. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I also like mercurial, although I'm not picky (I used monotone for quite a long time, but anything is a major improvement over CVS). Savannah offers CVS, git, and arch. arch and git are both decentralized, altough I find arch very difficult to use.

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Casadevall dies 23/07/2007 hora 17:53: When I joined [Castle Infinity], development was a complete mess because of similar issues we had here (lack of organization, lack of motivation/time by elder members). The first thing I did once I realized was going on was locked our SVN

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:49:12PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Maybe it would help to lower entry barriers for the project. A distributed version control helps technically. What I think is most important is that people can easily locally branch/merge the master (CVS) repository with their

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-24 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Banck dies 25/07/2007 hora 00:01: Adding a git repository mirroring the (master) CVS repository at savannah would be cool I guess, but I am not sure switching over to git at this point has any big advantages compared to the (also present) drawbacks. What drawbacks do you see,

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Casadevall
I believe antrik hit the nail on the head (and I apologize for not being active on the lists; real life caught up with me). Watching how things are being done, I find it insane that as it stands I have to patch the sources so heavily to get a usable system (The 2GB for patch ext2fs has been

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Stallman
There may be a misunderstanding. Two different issues were raised: getting Hurd-related changes into Glibc, and getting changes into the Hurd. Here I'm talking about appointing another Hurd maintainer to get changes installed in the Hurd itself. ___

Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-22 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:36:32PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: There may be a misunderstanding. Two different issues were raised: getting Hurd-related changes into Glibc, and getting changes into the Hurd. Well yes. While the glibc issue seems to have turned out mostly a

Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc (was: about GNU Hurd)

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:53:47PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: [Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc.] Maybe we need to add another Hurd maintainer who will devote more time to this. Is there someone who would like to volunteer? I've already been proposing this two or three