On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:29:24PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Hi, > > I just got pointed to this: http://live.gnome.org/NewSVNRepos > > ... and it looks rather bureaucratic.
What part? Most of it is meant for new projects and is just a basic 'open source licences only' + a check that it will be used. If someone has an SVN account the repository is created. The only thing I check if there are no problems with e.g. the existing svn dump (if it exists). I do not see the problem. > Back in the days of cvs.gnome.org, anyone with an account (already a > trusted member of the GNOME community) could create a new project on the > CVS server. People kept little pet projects there; sometimes they > turned into real contributions to GNOME, and sometimes they remained as > little pet projects. In either case, it was polite of GNOME to let > contributors use our services freely, since they are already feeding > code to the project at large. I do not remember not creating an SVN repository when someone with an SVN account asked. > Is it possible to remove the step of "ask the sysadmins to create a > repository for you"? Can we simply give people some guidelines on how > to create the branches/trunk/tags directories? The exact instructions used by the sysadmins are on the wiki page; meaning: | Sysadmin | | Log on to socket. Change to root. Run | /home/admin/bin/create-repository repositoryname [dumpfile] -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
