hi all

what should we do with the 'originals'?

regards
elio

Am Freitag, den 13.03.2009, 11:49 +0100 schrieb Dennis Schridde:
> Dear Git users!
> 
> Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 11:16:30 schrieb Gerard Krol:
> > Please test if cloning the repository works for you. If you like, you
> > can clone the mainline repository on Gitorious (one click+entering a
> > name) 
> For those who do not immediately figure it out:
> http://www.gitorious.org/projects/warzone2100/repos/mainline
> On the right side is a button "Clone repository".
> 
> > Finally, we need to decide what to do with the "mainline" repository.
> > Devurandom has convinced me that a shared repository (with multiple
> > people pushing to) does not work well with git. We thus need someone who
> > regularly (at least once a week, but preferable every few days) pulls
> > from the developers repositories, tests the result, and pushes to
> > mainline. That way we still have an "official" development version. I
> > can do this for maybe a few weeks, but I'm really not the man for the
> > job as I could have one of my "few month breaks" at any time.
> We could rotate the job. ;)
> Whoever has the time is assigned to do it for a month and then it is passed 
> to 
> the next in the active-chain.
> 
> Is someone used to the Signed-Off-By system and knows how it works? Maybe we 
> could use that to assist QA a bit. Or get users to mark problematic 
> revisions/repositories.
> 
> (What I currently think about is, when Joe User experiences unexpected 
> crashes 
> in devurandom's repository, he marks it with a comment. Far from ideal and 
> just a sketchup, but you get the idea.)
> 
> 
> What Gerard and I thought about was an even simpler system though:
> Let people dynamically decide where to fetch from.
> If they find my repository to be most stable and up-to-date (I doubt it...), 
> they will fetch from me. If they think Per's is better, they will use his.
> For releases we will appoint a release maintainer, who will receive merge 
> requests and prepare an official version.
> So while things based on master are pretty loose, you have one 
> person/repository responsible for any release branch. That's exactly one 
> place 
> to send people to.
> I'd like to see your comments.
> 
> 
> --DevUrandom
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