2009/8/23 Carlos R. Mafra <[email protected]>
> Paul Harris wrote:
> > PS: My repo contains all the fixes for bugs which were posted to
> > the list that I know of. That is the Window Maker I am using
> > right now, so I care deeply about having those bugs fixed.
> >
> > I understand the need for your own repo and I commend your dedication to
> > our one true love, Window Maker.
>
> Heh :-)
>
> > Can we please also seem some efforts made in the way of ensuring these
> > changes are pushed into the main windowmaker repo, so we don't risk a
> > fork?
>
> Believe me, I feel a bit bad about having my own repo and posting the
> link to it in this mailing list. And I will not do it anymore if
> that bothers people, because the patches there do not apply anymore
> to the mercurial repo.
>
The whole point of Distributed Versioning Systems is to allow this sort of
development. I just want to encourage that the repos grow together, and
don't fork too much.
John does seem to be pretty busy at the moment, as are a lot of other
people. I myself don't have time to maintain another package, so I can
understand how these situations arise.
Maybe people should look at your repo as the 'development branch'. If you
can keep your repo patched with everything the merc repo has, PLUS the
extras, then there may be little problem with eventually merging the git
development branch into the merc trunk (since the trunk would be a subset of
dev). It would require some code reviewing prior to the merge, but if the
changes aren't on a massive scale it shouldn't be too hard (eg reformatting
all of the { } formatting, thus changing every line).
If there are other people who are maintaining their own repos of bug fixes,
perhaps now is the time to speak up, so that we can get some coordination
here.
And above all, we should continue to use the official list (this one) to
talk about patches and repos, even if they aren't the official ones...
because this is the natural place for wmaker fans to come and check on its
progress... if we don't talk about it here, then how do people like me know
what is going on?
I'm happy that there has been progress, but can I request that you make your
repo easy to build debian-packages from? I have a bug I'd like to test if
it still exists, but I don't want to 'make install' because there is usually
no 'make uninstall' ... a debian/rules folder would fix all that.
thanks
Paul
