On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 18:51, David Edmundson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2012/3/22 Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 18:41, Daniele E. Domenichelli > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 22/03/12 03:39, Dario Freddi wrote: > >>> > >>> This approach has also multiple advantages, such as: > >>> > >>> * We can decide which commit each submodule will point to, so it's > >>> safe ground for testers > >>> * Or we can allow people to fuck this and just get master of each repo > >>> * Qt already did the hard job for us and we just have to adapt our > >>> scripts > >>> * This approach preserves modularity but still allows to group quite > >>> efficiently some/all repos. > >> > >> > >> * If we find out that this approach sucks we can easily go back to the > >> multiple repository approach > >> * If one day some packages will enter in any kde "main" package we just > >> need to import the add the submodule there and remove it from here. > >> > >> > >> Since Dario is supporting me on git submodules I propose an alternative > >> (but I still believe we should talk about this later, perhaps at > Akademy): > >> > >> Instead of making several packages, we make a single "kde-telepathy" > meta > >> repository (yes kde-telepathy, not ktp :P). Inside we add some > >> subdirectories (libs, handlers, config, utils, whatever, etc.) and > inside > >> each subdir we put the real repositories. > > > > > > Note that the packages are not the problem but just a result of it. The > > thing we're trying to solve is our repos count, which is high and this > does > > not help it, on contrary it makes the complexity higher (depends on > point of > > view). > > > Having a high repo count isn't necessarily a problem. > > We should make sure we're tackling actual problems, (which could be > caused by the high repo count) not solving things which are just > "different". > Ah well, just screw it then. -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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