On Fri, 24 May 2013 20:25:33 +0000 "Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)" <rdiff-bac...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> That sounds extremely helpful. For me, time is of course, also the > issue. (And I probably shouldn't be writing this at work.) ;-) > But I'm self employed, so I'm not at risk of punishing myself. I'm > just not spending my time billing somebody right now, when I should > be. But I like doing this, so here I am. ;-) Beats doing > facebook or tweeting at work. Fundamentally the same thing. Writing > on the internet. > > If you wouldn't mind, doing exactly as you say - seeing what obvious > low hanging fruit exists, and trying to get more info about that, it > would definitely be time well spent. > > Also, I don't know if you'll need permissions either. So simply > getting the answer to THAT question will already represent forward > momentum. ;-) I now have obtained nearly all the permissions on > this project, so I think I should be able to grant that. great. Will try and take a look this weekend and see what I can do. > > Another unrelated thing... currently source is in svn. Git is the > > new hotness, perhaps it would be worth seeing how hard it would be > > to migrate? > > You're right. Until a couple weeks ago, it was under CVS. And I > shyly with a slight little gesture of embarassment, converted to svn > intentionally instead of git. From a technical standpoint, I do > personally think git will be better than svn for this project, but my > motiviation for selecting svn was thus: ...snip good reasoning... > There are still a bunch of people out there who know svn because of > work and haven't surmounted the obstacle of learning git... I chose > svn to be conservative and avoid creating any obstacles for new > developers. > > Anybody who's in love with git is probably already using git2svn for > other projects ... Sure, thats fine. Git I think has a lot of advantages in contribution however. It's very easy for someone to clone off your project on github and submit a pull request back as a patch. Anyhow, I won't press the issue, use whatever you like best and works for the project. You can always change later or adjust. kevin
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