On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:01 +0200, Antoni Mylka wrote: > Evgeny Egorochkin pisze: > >> - I also had the impression that most people would prefer git, > >> nonetheless is SVN being installed as repository. This is probably not > >> a very big issue, just pointing out. > > > > It's not being installed, it's the only option offered by sf.net at this > > moment, although my bet is they will eventually give in to people asking > > for > > git. > > > > It's not true. SF has git, bazaar, mercurial and CVS (and svn of course).
Git was most popular whenever this was brought up at conference meetings. > The only issue was that trac integrates only with subversion, so if we > move to git we'll loose > - changesets on the timeline (and the rss feed) > - ability to link to changesets from wiki and ticket comments Which aren't really features that are very important, to be honest. > There is a trac plugin that enables git integration but it's not > installed in the SF trac. > > This has been requested, and they might do it if it's popular: > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/idea/41/ > > All of these questions have been discussed in the thread "[Xesam] > oscaf/xesam ontology merge: who is going to maintain/edit what?" > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xesam/2009-June/thread.html > > That thread was long and confusing though Yes, and this is part of the problem that I wanted to address: I don't have the feeling that there's a connection between the people who've been discussing things face to face at conference meetings, and what has been said in that discussion thread. Let's reconnect this ;) Hence the title of this E-mail: "Request for an overview": Articulate the decisions and conclusions, rather than keeping them buried in a mailing list thread. > If this is what everyone wants then > - i can enable the git repo > - and import the current trunk > - and disable svn I think that's a good idea. > - and ask everyone here to campaign for the git integration to be > enabled (vote and tell others to vote on ideatorrent) I'm still not sure what the other people think about using trac. I know it has been quite unpopular whenever we brought this up at conference meetings. But maybe it's suddenly fine? Let's wait a bit and allow others to formulate their opinion. -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
