James Livingston schrieb: > As I haven't really contributed anything to GNOME in a year or so, I've > been keeping out of the debate, but: > > On 07/01/2009, at 9:00 AM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: >> Welcome to the open source world. Generally open source developers are >> not limited to GNOME, and they eventually learn 2-3 revision control >> systems. I mean, they don't need to learn a lot of commands of each >> RCS, just the basics: >> >> 1- Checkout/clone module; >> 2- Update; >> 3- Create a diff of changes, redirecting to a patch file. > > I also agree that many contributors do those tasks (especially > non-coders like translators), and it would be fairly simple to have a > small script that does those tasks for all the SCMs that GNOME hosted if > it chose to host multiple SCMs. Something like "gnome-scm checkout > git:http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/>", "gnome-scm checkout > bzr:http://bzr-project.example.com/foo.stable/";, "gnome-scm update" and > "gnome-scm diff" would be a good start. > > This obviously wouldn't do anything fancy, but for all the people who > don't have about SCMs and just want to make a small change it would > work. Since it would presumably delegate actual work to the underlying > SCM tools, it would also be an easy transition for anyone who wanted to > start doing more powerful things, by allowing them to use the real tools > on their checkout.
You want git and bzr support for moap :) Stefan > > > If GNOME hosted multiple SCMs then it would mean that developers who > work on a large number of projects might have to learn both git and bzr. > Which I can't see as a huge issues because anything they maintain will > be presumably in their favourite SCM, anything they only do a small > amount of work on will only require the basics on the SCM, and anyone > who does serious work on multiple projects probably won't have a problem > learning another SCM. Is knowing both git and bzr a huge issue? I > imagine that most serious developers here already know quite a few, at > least CVS, SVN, Git/BZR and probably others. > > > James (who is ducking back outside the flamethrowing-testing area) > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
