Søren Hauberg wrote:

<snip>
> Regarding the issue of where code is developed (SVN vs Hg vs ???) then I
> think we should deal with this independently of the bug tracker issue.
> That being said, my impression is that a lot of development happens
> outside the SVN repository and when a new release is made a lot of code
> gets checked into SVN. So I don't think our current setup is working.

...but it doesn't stand in the way either.
What did you want to accomplish with the current setup?

Personally I find working intensively with repositories a bit of a 
hassle. The associated overhead only pays off when multiple developers 
do work simultaneously at the same (sub)project. I don't see many 
octave-forge packages being maintained by developer teams.

As long as code does get checked in, either in large chunks just before 
release or gradually, things seem to work for developers.

 >
> I must confess that I am not sure that the idea of using a single
> repository for *all* packages actually works. If I want to work on
> package X then I guess it is annoying that I have to check out the
> entire Octave-Forge repository.

??? As fas ar my experience goes, that doesn't hold.

When I was ready for committing to the io or java package, or updating 
it from svn, all I did was checkout/update just those packages (using 
Tortoise for Windows).

FYI: on my local octave-forge svn dir I only have the io, java, & 
linear-algebra packages. Update & commit works OK (I only use Tortoise 
for that).

 >
 > The single repository seems to serve no purpose now that we moved
 > away from the monolithic releases. So perhaps we should create a
 > whole bunch of repositories?

I fail to see why that would be needed. It already works OK for single 
packages.

Philip

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