Hi,

On Sunday 15 Apr 2012, Keshav Kini wrote:
> Martin Albrecht <martinralbre...@googlemail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know about you, but I screw up surprisingly often when it comes
> > to cutting SPKGs (starting off from old versions, copying wrong files
> > etc.).
> > 
> > I figured perhaps we should make use of the repositories we have inside
> > the SPKGs already. The idea being that all changes to SPKGs are pushed
> > to some repository on the net and this way it's much much easier to cut
> > fresh SPKGs (which can be automated actually).
> > 
> > Do people think it's a good idea and we should adopt this strategy for
> > SPKGs? I think it would make things much easier and less error prone.
> 
> If, as I infer from your wording, you propose consolidating all the SPKG
> repos into a single repo,

No! Not at all. This might be good or bad down the road, but I am definitely 
not proposing this now. Instead I say we should keep canonical copies of each 
SPKG repo somewhere online to avoid screw ups like I do them all the time. 
This change would very much not intrusive: we could switch over SPKGs one by 
one etc.

> then you might be interested in what R. Andrew
> Ohana and I did in the last few days of Review Days 2 last month - see
> http://github.com/kini/sage-workflow . The SEP draft there is very far
> from complete, and we (and others who were there) did brainstorm more
> ideas than appear in that document right now, so it's probably best to
> just ignore that document for the moment - which is why I haven't really
> posted about it on sage-devel yet. But the shell script
> `consolidate-repos.sh` could be interesting to you.
> 
> -Keshav
> 
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Cheers,
Martin

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