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 > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org