On 2 September 2010 18:47, Manfred Bergmann <manfred.bergm...@me.com> wrote: > > Am 02.09.2010 um 18:18 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: > >> On 2 September 2010 17:28, Matthew Talbert <ransom1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Manfred Bergmann >>> <manfred.bergm...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't know but isn't it contra productive and actually a lot more work >>>> to maintain the sources on a variety on source control platforms? >>>> We end up having SWORD source trees on Github, Bitbucket and Launchpad and >>>> eventually on any other system that will come up. >>>> For all of those we need people to maintain the sources otherwise we will >>>> have a mess of different sources version and implementations. >>>> In my opinion, the main and official sources of SWORD have to be >>>> maintained by responsible people from Crosswire. >>>> And it has to be clear that Crosswire will have and is in control of the >>>> official sources. I don't actually care which source control system is >>>> used for that, though I think that Subversion is the greatest common >>>> divisor because all other DVCSs can bi-directional access Subversion. >>>> >>> >>> As far as I know, only Launchpad is being used (other than svn). It is >>> quite helpful, because it allows people to publish branches of code >>> and work on them together to finish a feature before it is committed >>> to sword svn. If there is a proliferation of source control systems >>> being used, I'm unaware of it. >>> >>> Matthew >>> >> >> Plus on Launchpad it is clearly stated where the upstream svn >> repository is. The bzr imports are run every 6 hours for many sword >> projects (jsword, sword, xiphos, bibletime). And bzr is fully >> compatible with svn, i.e. you can seamlessly commit to svn from bzr if >> you have access. > > That is totally fine. > The use case you are outlining is comprehensible. Btw: MacSword is mirrored > on Launchpad as well. > Who is maintaining the Launchpad repos? I mean, one of the branches probably > is used to push back to SWORD svn? > > > Manfred >
Does it make sence to create crosswire meta projects for all of the sword related projects? _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page