On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > On 17 Sep 2005, at 14:37, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:35:21PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > >>PS. Sourceforge CVS is borked again, we really should switch to > >>Subversion on our own server > > > >I'd be happy with that as long as I have assurances that it will be > >reasonably easy to make it work over Freenet 0.7, and that the > >architecture is suitable. > > I can't provide that assurance, much as I cannot provide the > assurance that *any* source control system will be easy to make work > over Freenet 0.7 (I think it would be a big job, and certainly not > something we would spend a significant amount of our donated funds on). > > Personally I think the prospect of source control over Freenet is a > rather pie-in-the-sky idea, and it is silly to try to factor it into > any decisions right now.
I'm not saying we need to do source control over freenet as the primary mechanism for development. What I am saying is that most of our potential volunteers are put off by the lack of communication between the anonymous community (which is still fairly vibrant) and the overt development effort (which is stagnant at best). At the very least we need daily source snapshots and binaries on an official freesite, and working, preferably bundled freemail integrated into the mailing lists, and IRC. Source control would be a significant advance, allowing the anonymous community to participate as first class developers. And as I have pointed out, it IS possible, because *it has been done already*! > > If at some point in the future we decide to migrate to some kind of > Freenet-based system, then we are probably just going to have to take > the current HEAD and commit it to the new system, irrespective of > what source control system we decide to use. > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20050917/9c9d9d89/attachment.pgp>
