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
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