Hello, I just checked out the gnome live page comparison of the 3 major DRCS, but I am afraid the page is actually heavily biased toward git, and contains a lot of outdated/irrelevant informations. I don't want to start a flamewar, but I think we should rather define a set of criterias that will allow selecting a DRCS (if the gnome project decides to move to a DRCS of course), instead of just dumping a set of "features", also, I would like to add that the benchmarking linked from that page is really very outdated and useless, it would be better if someone create some up to date benchmarks.
-- Cheers, Ali http://asabil.wordpress.com On 9/11/07, Kevin Kubasik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NOTE: I'm sorry if this comes out oddly formatted or something, I'm using > an old SVN checkout of roundcube to send, as Gmail has decided I'm a > spammer or something[1].... > > Hey, as many of you know, there has been an ongoing discussion in > foundation-list about this for a few days now. It was recently realized > that foundation-list is not really the place for such a discussion. > > I have started a Wiki page where I hope to summarize most of the > discussion > that took place in > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-September/thread.html > (there were several relevant threads, I hope its not impossible to find > them). > > For those who were already were a part of the conversation on > foundation-list, please feel free to continue as before, if you are new to > this discussion, please take a moment to read the wiki page, or skim the > archives so we don't end up back at square one. > > That being said, the current discussion page is at > http://live.gnome.org/DistributedSCM (Moved from > http://live.gnome.org/gitMigration) I will try to update it with most of > the information from the original discussion over the course of this > evening, however, a lot of opinions have been voiced, and it will take a > while. > > A few key points: > * There is a _very_ strong general opinion that Gnome should eventually > move to a DSCM system, it is really just a discussion of how and when. > * The 3 systems under consideration are bzr,git, and hg. There has not > been much discussion on which to choose, it is probably better that people > include their experiences with these tools on the wiki page. (please > provide hard numbers to backup statements! Don't just say its slow, give > us > a time it took to perform a task! Don't just say it takes up a lot of > space? How much? and preferably, provide comparisons for the other systems > if possible) > * A major concern is allowing our current translation and documentation > teams to continue to work without serious interruption. Many of those > contributers are less technical, or simply have less interest in playing > around with software to figure it out ;). Also, translators don't want an > entire repository to edit one po file, can a single file be checked out > locally and modified? There was even discussion of a web interface, but > the > most important thing here is if we were to move to web system for > translations, it would have to _already written_ before any real talk of > it > continued. (perhaps Launchpad will have completely open sourced that > component, and we could use their system) But we want to avoid discussions > of vaporware here, if we are going to talk about a program that can do > something for the translators, please present a link to a project we can > use or modify, or some proof of concept code. > * There is a debate over the difficulty of using a new distributed system, > it seems that alot of developers already use a DSCM somewhere else, and as > a result, are quite comfortable with the technical component (although the > social structure for sharing branches we choose etc. could change their > current use) > > Anyways, everyone's input is welcome, just please follow the > http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct > and respect everyones opinion, this is a discussion, not a deathmatch. ;) > > [1] > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=22839 > -- > Cheers, > Kevin Kubasik > http://kubasik.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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