Hi all, I am sorry that I didn't have the time to take care of centerIM lately, but you know hoe life does work, don't you? Anyhow I think we should find a way to make sure that even if I don't have the time to merge the mob branch in the master branch someone else is able to do it so that we don't stop ongoing development! So we have two possibilities: 1. Someone takes the responsability of merging the mob branch in the master branch and making new tarballs. For this to happen this someone must first subscribe to repo.or.cz and then ask David Riebenbauer to be added to the project. The same applies for the sourceforge project, so that she/he can manage bugs and all. Merging the two branches implies that before doing this she/he must check that the package can compile fine with various configure options, especially if there are new options added. 2. We could change VCS. There aresome downsides to git: it is not so straightforward to use, apparently it is difficult to install on systems other than linux. On the other hand, I like that fact that commits don't require that you are online, only synchronization requires a connection to a server. Also, something we didn't make big usage of yet, it has an interesting personal branching mechanism that allows everyone to have its own personalization in centerim without forcibly adding unstable code in the official branch. A good alternative may be bazaar[1] because it has the same development model, but it is written in Python (so portable to any platform) and it has support for things like ftp server synchronization.
Anyway I'd like to know what you guys think about the issue, I just don't want ongoing development to stop just because I don't have the time! [1] http://bazaar-vcs.org/ -- Stéphane _______________________________________________ Centerim-devel mailing list [email protected] http://centerim.org/mailman/listinfo/centerim-devel
