Hi, Michael Terry wrote: > Though, I've gotten bad feedback about the feasibility of a round-trip > bzr->git->bzr conversion. I may start small with just a git mirror.
Just to provide some historical context: I recall one GNOME developer expressing his annoyance at "having to" sync his private git repository with svn via a gateway. It would not be unheard of for a maintainer to develop in another source control system and use some kind of gateway to publish on gnome.org > Of course I think it's possible, but Olav made it clear that the issue > was settled law. Leaving aside "because that's the way it is" as a reason for a second, what are the potential issues we'd have using Launchpad? * Bug reporters would have to have an easy way to report bugs against Deja Dup through gnome.org * GNOME developers would need to reassign bugs to deja dup which were incorrectly assigned to another GNOME module * Deja Dup developers would presumably want to do the same thing in the other direction Are there others I'm missing? Addressing those concretely: 1. We currently have a straightforward story for users with bug reports: "Go to bugzilla.gnome.org, create an account, and report it there against the best module. Don't worry if you get it wrong, we'll reassign afterwards if you make a mistake." Using Launchpad for a core module would need either (a) a nice way to sync up bugzilla & launchpad bugs & comments, or (b) a new way to indicate to users where they should report a bug (a portal page? Maintenance issues to think about) 2. and 3. What does Launchpad & Bugzilla offer in the way of transfering bug reports & comments from one to the other? > A) GNOME devs could deal with it and realize that one more web account > won't kill them. The ability to search and reassign bugs to deja-dup > from within b.g.o don't seem like killer features to me. It must be > an issue now with external dependencies and you live with it. Sure - this is also an approach to consider. > B) We could have a deja-dup module in b.g.o as well as the canonical > one in LP. LP has this cool feature to synchronize comments and such > between a bug in LP and a bug elsewhere. It's turned off for b.g.o, > but it may be possible that it could be turned on per-module. I'd > have to look into it. Something like this (ideally two-way) would be great. And would, I think, remove the biggest objection to using Launchpad for GNOME modules. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
