Oops, the discussion was not directly related to what I was
talking about. My apologies.. (should always read the thread
first and not answer to a random mail). And sorry for the
typos..

/Jarkko

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:09:30PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:32:37PM +0900, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > On 10/5/2012 9:27 AM, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote:
> > >> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> On 10/5/2012 9:11 AM, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote:
> > >>>> As far as I know, Kibum Kim is away and he is just a SCM guy.
> > >>>
> > >>> SCM guy ?
> > >>
> > >> Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Control_Management
> > >
> > > I know what SCM is thank you very much
> > >
> > > What I don't grok is why an "SCM guy" does things and not the package 
> > > maintainer
> > 
> > Sorry I don't know why either.
> > 
> > >
> > >> He just dumped Tizen source code from Samsung internal git to public 
> > >> Tizen git.
> > >
> > > he made a change to Tizen.
> > > without any useful commit message, and he replaced one component with 
> > > another.
> > >
> > > surely there is a reason and rational for all of that?
> > >
> > > oh and he didn't dump from an internal git... there would actually be 
> > > history and other committers if he did that.
> > >
> > 
> > Oh maybe I am missing something.
> > Kibum could answer you but it looks like he is away :(
> 
> I fully agree with Arjan that history should be there.
> 
> There are four points why you shouldn't never ever touch the 
> revision history:
> 
> - People working from community (be it individual or a company)
> want to credit of their work. Contribution is essentially a
> changeset in the revision history.
> - Single commit could be in some case a copyrightable item.
> - Revision history is mandatory when you want to pick upstream
> bug fixes into your project. Even if your project is a fork of
> a upstream project this is very essential thing.
> - Bug hunting. How you are going go git bisect?
> 
> For example, if you only have kind of flow of dumps, you make
> fluid integration of fixes to CVEs very very hard.
> 
> In my opinion, this is really an issue that should be dealt in
> a way or another. Dumping a strong effect to quality and also
> on willinges of community to contribute to a project.
> 
> Just my 5 cents. I try to be constructive here :) Thanks.
> 
> /Jarkko
> 
> > 
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>>> At that time, Tizen didn't keep the internal git histories which is a 
> > >>>> bad idea.
> > >>>
> > >>> at that time? This is in August!
> > >>> And yes, Tizen HAD a git already at that time.... this was not the 
> > >>> first commit at all.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Explained above.
> > >
> > > no actually, not explained at all.
> > > there is never an excuse to clobber a git tree.
> > >
> > 
> > I didn't ask you excuse. I just explained because you asked.
> > 
> > > and frankly, this sort of change must be deliberate somehow!
> > > or are you telling me that components randomly change like this, without 
> > > any thought or idea
> > > or control? That would be insane, and indicative of a Mickey Mouse 
> > > project, not something serious.
> > >
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > I also don't like that idea.
> > 
> > >>> which have a last change entry of 2010.
> > >>> This change was done in August 2012.
> > >>> So these are not very useful files.
> > >>> (adding debian files in the commit made sense as part of the general 
> > >>> RPM -> Debian transition that seems to be happening though)
> > >>
> > >> No Tizen is moving from deb to rpm and SBS to OBS.
> > >> Tizen 1.0 : deb + SBS
> > >> Tizen 2.0 : rpm + OBS
> > >
> > > I feel sorry for you then... sounds like a huge leap backwards.
> > > (as someone who has been working on Linux operating systems for 10 
> > > years... I can really say I feel sorry for you,
> > > with experience, not just compassion)
> > 
> > I don't like this movement as well. But that's what happened to Tizen 2.0.
> > I still miss deb + SBS :(
> > 
> > >
> > > the good news is that in the last few months, debian stuff has been added 
> > > to, not removed from basically all packages,
> > > so I wonder if your statement is actually true.
> > >
> > 
> > Oh you didn't read my link.
> > https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=external/bootchart.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;h=b7762ace8a6e14819f0a4bebcdab2e09cc6342b2;hb=30267f1d1bd18383ad0fa45d21fa00a2ed23cda9
> > Read the link again and see the history and date.
> > The last change happened on 24 Nov 2010. There was no Tizen project in 2010.
> > They didn't remove debian directory yet and committed whole source
> > code to Tizen git.
> > 
> > Sorry debian is not used in Tizen 2.0 anymore.
> > Don't ask me why because I don't like the move either.
> > 
> > I am just helping you understand the history. I didn't decide it :(
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>> In what architecture forum was the decision made to switch from the 
> > >>> modern (C) bootchart to the old (java) bootchart?
> > >>> Were there Intel folks, or any non-Samsung folks present in that forum?
> > >>> What were the reasons for changing away from the modern bootchart?
> > >>> Is Tizen going include Java to work with this?
> > >
> > > these questions are still very very relevant, and still unanswered.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Yes there must be a proper answer from the right person.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Daniel Juyung Seo (SeoZ)
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