Hi Tim, Thanks for the update and all the hard work you and others have put in to get the transition to git completed. I look forward to the migration guide.
Regards, John On May 8, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
