Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-09-08 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:49 AM, George Hunt wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I would like to offer some reflections after the last couple of weeks. >> >> I stepped aside because I felt I was hindering the project more than >> helping it. I sp

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-08 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 07:41:29PM -0700, Anish Mangal wrote: > This is very helpful. Thanks. I suspect this doesn't affect users > submitting patches? Correct. You can try it yourself. 1. clone your copy of the repository, 2. clone again with --depth=1, 3. make the same change to both repo

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-08 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi James, On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:04 PM, James Cameron wrote: > I presume you speak of the git://dev.sugardextrose.org/xs-config > repository. > > Yes > I don't think 70 MB is a problem: > > - cloning is normally only done once, > > - developers can be advised to clone and then copy so as to

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-08 Thread James Cameron
I presume you speak of the git://dev.sugardextrose.org/xs-config repository. I don't think 70 MB is a problem: - cloning is normally only done once, - developers can be advised to clone and then copy so as to avoid having to clone again, - developers on restricted bandwidth should learn to use

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-09-08 Thread Braddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2013 04:49 AM, George Hunt wrote: > And when he wants to incorporate DXS into the next revision, XSCE > 0.5, the fear crops up again. I need help dealing with my fear of > complexity. Are there any volunteers? Hi George, If you missed the DX

Re: [Server-devel] Problems with the School Server and IIAB

2013-09-08 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, all I have been offline for several days. I am just now reading a backlog of 200 emails. Please bear with me on this. I have recommended that IIAB be given a fixed IP from the beginning; however, I have not had a chance to look at this problem to determine if that is relevant here. Ton

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-09-08 Thread George Hunt
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM, David Farning wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to offer some reflections after the last couple of weeks. > > I stepped aside because I felt I was hindering the project more than > helping it. I spent years being frustrated by Langoff's hold on > OLPC-XS. Then af

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-08 Thread George Hunt
There's a political reason for the size of the repo. In my discussions with Daniel Drake at the last SF summit, we discussed the relationship between the work of XSCE and his finished 0.7 school server. The XSCE repo started from a clone of 0.7, which itself appears to trace back all the way to t