Hi Folks Well we have been poking around with the qgis/Quantum-GIS github repo for the last week and I think it looks ok for us to continue to work against it. So unless there are any objections I would like to make it the 'official' code repository and update the docs etc. I will be adding some documentation on how to carry out your basic workflow with the new repo.
One thing we briefly discussed on the IRC channel is not reinstating every committer from the svn committer list. Since we now work with a distributed model, it is simple for *anyone* interested in working against our code base to do so and contribute their changes back with very little effort. Also, external contributors get fully acknowledged as their name & email are propogated into the code history when we pull from their repository or apply their patches (if they were created using the git patch preparation tool). As such it makes little sense for use to have tens of committers into the core repository, Instead I would like to suggest that we provide the most active committers with direct access to the repostory and let them apply pull requests from others as needed. The ability to work on QGIS is truly democratised with GIT and the purpose of committers to the core repo should (in my eyes) be just to perform a final screening for code quality etc before it makes its way into the repository. If you are an existing svn committer and feel strongly about wanting to have direct commit access to the master repo, please speak up now. With regards to the migration to redmine, I am waiting on osgeo to provide a backup and then we will attempt the migration - Alex Mandel has kindly offered to help with this - hopefully we will look at it later tonight. As such the release of 1.7 is still on hiatus until we get all our infrastructure updates done - small patches to fix issues in the release branch (no string changes please) are welcome in the mean time. Packagers are also encouraged to build test packages and submit any needed changes to support their packaging work. Best regards Tim -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
