Hi GWT contributors, This is a quick note to let you know about an internal process change that the GWT team is making to maintain our sanity during GWT's continued growth in adoption.
The number of GWT applications built by Google itself -- both outward-facing apps like Google Wave and AdWords 3 as well as Google's own inward-facing apps we use to the run the business -- has grown quite a bit over the last couple of years. This growth brings with it new support challenges, and one of the biggest is that these projects reside in a different version control system. Keeping things in sync has created a lot of overhead and, as you can imagine, headaches. In the next week or so, we're planning to start committing GWT changes to the internal version control system first, which will then be mirrored out to the public svn repository within a few minutes by an automatic sync process. We have gone to a lot of trouble to make sure that this extra level of indirection will be so transparent that you won't even notice the change. Things like commit log comments and author names will continue to appear as they always have. Design and code reviews will continue to take place on this public list as always. Contributed patches work the same way as always, except that they'll be committed indirectly through the mirrored route. So, again, if all goes as planned, you'll see nothing different. The only reason we're announcing it at all, is... 1) to apologize in advance if there are some bumps as we get the syncing thing working properly -- we've tested it a lot, but there's always a chance of turbulence 2) to let you know to yell if anything looks messed up in the repo, so we can find and fix those bumps faster :-) -- Bruce, on behalf of the GWT team
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