On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, Richard Lowe wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: > >Now that I've (hopefully) dug myself out of this onnv-gate Hg > >regeneration hole, I'd like to start working on this SCM Migration thing. > > > >I believe these are our current tasks: > >1) Finalise a priority list of developer/GK tools to convert > > (This discussion has already started it looks like) > >2) Start an evaluation process for determing what Hg features or > > extensions to use (i.e.: forest, mq, etc.) > > Various things depend on choices here (and in some respects, choices > here may affect workflow), so this needs to be kicked off soon.
Agreed > >Some of the tools listed on the page[1] don't necessarily have to exist. > > Yes, it's easy to port 'daily_update' - but we don't need it with > >Mercurial. So we should keep this in mind. > > > >I'd like to decide how we want to address SVN as well. Some of these > >tools will be used by other consolidations/projects that will be using > >SVN, so we should try to be mindful that we're not hacking in > >Mercurialisms. (e.g.: webrev) > > Are consolidations other than CCD and JDS planning on using svn? > webrev is a fine example of something that should work everywhere, but > if those two would be the sole consumers, various other things need not > support subversion. Good question... I'm not sure what the other consolidations are using, and which tools they want to share. I'll try to find out more info on this. > >So here's what I see as immediate next steps: > >1) Can we get some volunteers to evaluate Hg features/extensions and > >decide whether or not they are appropriate for use? > > The Xen folks would have input here no doubt... > I've been using Mq for quite a while, and liking it, though I think the > steps required to merge would need to be considerably simplified. > > Again, that kind of gets muddled into workflow. Perhaps a modification to Mq, or another extension to simplify merging would be useful. -steve -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list [email protected]
