Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:53:17PM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > Another GSoC consideration is that it would be nice to have students > contributing directly to trunk. But with the 1.7 release "feature > freeze"[1] on going until we branch, they'd have to work on feature > branches, which get les

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote: > Working on trunk is no panacea that guarantees a student is going to > get quality review. I do not even see where it would make sense for a > student to be on trunk (depending on the task). The real issue is > that we probably do n

Re: Questions about this GSOC

2011-03-19 Thread yun lee
Oh, thanks for your kind and detailed reply, Stefan! I have read your letter twice and your advice is valuable and exciting for me, and encourage me heavily! The past GSOC wiki pages along with your two ideas are usable to me, and each of them can certainly improve U.E.. Well, it's a bit hard for

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread yun lee
As a GSOC student, I'm more interested in making a progress on my development experience and skills. And whether to working on trunk is not so important, however, I wish my work can be packed into the new release for wide users, the earlier the better! 2011/3/19 Stefan Sperling : > On Fri, Mar 18

Re: Questions about this GSOC

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 06:40:12PM +0800, yun lee wrote: > ps: Where to read more resources about the testing on a product > environment, please? There are no public resources about this, as far as I know. The company I mentioned did share information with me privately. Before sharing it with any

Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Vignesh Srinivasan
Hi I am newbie to subversion development trying to learn and contribute to the community. Sorry if this is numb question. I am trying to setup the development environment using Makefile.svn and I am stuck with the bellow error. Could someone help me in proceeding further? if [ "none" = "none" ];

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 06:13:37PM +0530, Vignesh Srinivasan wrote: > Hi > > I am newbie to subversion development trying to learn and contribute to the > community. Sorry if this is numb question. > > I am trying to setup the development environment using Makefile.svn and I am > stuck with the b

Re: Questions about this GSOC

2011-03-19 Thread yun lee
hehe, I got it. I will focus on my study on SVN first and keep this idea in head. Thanks! 2011/3/19 Stefan Sperling : > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 06:40:12PM +0800, yun lee wrote: >> ps: Where to read more resources about the testing on a product >> environment, please? > > There are no public resour

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:56:45 +0100: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 06:13:37PM +0530, Vignesh Srinivasan wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am newbie to subversion development trying to learn and contribute to the > > community. Sorry if this is numb question. > > > > I am trying to setu

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
In any case: let's not special-case people because they came to us via GSOC. IOW: whatever policy we decide on should apply equally to GSOC-sponsored and other contributors. Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:20:49 +0100: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Mark Phippard wro

Re: Questions about this GSOC

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 20:43:20 +0100: > I have two new ideas: > > - Allow the test suite to be run in production environments. > > - Improve support for external diff and merge tools. What about performance? There has been a lot of work on performance lately (Stefan's se

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 17:33:23 +0200: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:56:45 +0100: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 06:13:37PM +0530, Vignesh Srinivasan wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I am newbie to subversion development trying to learn and contribute to > > > th

Re: Questions about this GSOC

2011-03-19 Thread Mark Phippard
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 20:43:20 +0100: >> I have two new ideas: >> >> - Allow the test suite to be run in production environments. >> >> - Improve support for external diff and merge tools. > > What about performance?

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Vignesh Srinivasan
I installed swig, did a nuke and rebuild. Now the build is complete. *vignesh@vignesh-laptop:/prefix/svn-trunk/bin$ ./svn --version* *svn, version 1.7.0 (dev build)* * compiled Mar 19 2011, 22:09:16* Appreciate your help and quick replies. Thanks a ton -vignesh On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:2

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Greg Stein
I think people should be using our standard, supported stuff rather than Makefile.svn. if there is a problem with the std stuff, then we should fix it. My understanding of Makefile.svn was that Stefan merely checked it in, rather than intending it to become recommended in any way. Cheers, -g On M

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Stephen Butler
On Mar 19, 2011, at 19:58 , Greg Stein wrote: > I think people should be using our standard, supported stuff rather than > Makefile.svn. Makefile.svn does use the standard stuff. Along with building dependencies, it runs Subversion's autogen.sh, configure script, and a few dozen Subversion- Mak

Re: GSOC Project ideas

2011-03-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:37:22PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > In any case: let's not special-case people because they came to us via GSOC. Yes. That's how we've handled it in the past, and it has worked well.

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Vignesh Srinivasan
For a newbie like me the script is very helpful. I was unsuccessful using the standard way, now I am going through the Makefile.svn script to understand what I missed in the standard way of setting up the environment. -vignesh On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Stephen Butler wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2011,

Re: Need help with Makefile.svn

2011-03-19 Thread Vignesh Srinivasan
For a newbie like me the script is very helpful. I was unsuccessful using the standard way, now I am going through the Makefile.svn script to understand what I missed in the standard way of setting up the environment. -vignesh On Sunday, March 20, 2011, Stephen Butler wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2011,