On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:29 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just got pointed to this: http://live.gnome.org/NewSVNRepos > > > > ... and it looks rather bureaucratic. > > > > 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. > > > > 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? > > Something I'd thought about before was having a separate SVN > server where people could just put whatever they want. Call > it users.gnome.org or something, and give everybody who has > a gnome.org account their own repo on it. So then I'd have > svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/shaunm/ >
This would be a great idea. Too many interesting projects are doomed to die on developers hard disks due to lack of time or interest. Luca _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
