Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-08 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 17:21 +0900, James Henstridge a écrit : I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via mailing lists

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-08 Thread James Livingston
As I haven't really contributed anything to GNOME in a year or so, I've been keeping out of the debate, but: On 07/01/2009, at 9:00 AM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: Welcome to the open source world. Generally open source developers are not limited to GNOME, and they eventually learn

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Kost
James Livingston schrieb: As I haven't really contributed anything to GNOME in a year or so, I've been keeping out of the debate, but: On 07/01/2009, at 9:00 AM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: Welcome to the open source world. Generally open source developers are not limited to GNOME,

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
to be suspected of non-representative-ness [New word!]. I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via mailing lists or bugzilla could use a DVCS the same way as a core developer. The same could go for anyone who does

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
to be inclusive -- no, lemme rephrase that: we are *fucking afraid of committment*. seriously: an abstraction over DVCS? what have we become? are we *ever* going make *any* decision about *anything*? this is actually a larger issue with the GNOME community: we are being afraid. Thanks Emmanuele

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
-control/git-is-like-cvs.html I've been using DVCS systems for a long long time. I have great respect for all the groups who have worked on the 3rd generation tools. Unfortunately I have no sympathy for Git anymore, and am tired of it screwing over people trying to use it. I for one I won't

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Edward Hervey
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 16:41 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: Heh, thanks a lot. This looks nice. Nicer than the one in gnulib that Rui Tiago pointed out. Although I must say not as nice as my 'gnulog' bazaar log formatter plugin.. ;-) But I guess good enough that I'd be

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Ali Sabil
From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a git-serve plugin for the bzr repo server. I think many people pointed out the major flaws in that scenario. I want to stress that we should not make

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Ruben Vermeersch
On di, 2009-01-06 at 04:53 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Ali Sabil wrote: Concerning the asserted flaws in John's proposal, the only valid point, is that it will need testing as the implementation is not very mature yet, And that's a HUGE issue, mind you. Here's another problem I'd

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 17:21 +0900, James Henstridge a écrit : I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via mailing lists or bugzilla could use a DVCS the same way as a core

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 13:10 +1100, Andrew Cowie a écrit : Regardless, GNOME is not switching to anything. If GNOME infrastructure is going to offer Git hosting, that's lovely for people who chose to use Git as their version control system. {shrug} fine. If GNOME infrastructure

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Neary
are contributing regularly to GNOME projects, and don't have an account on GNOME SVN? And why don't they? Another question: what is the cost associated with hosting multiple DVCSes? I understand of course that most people don't even have one SCM tool installed on their system. But for those not using a DVCS

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
DVCSes? I understand of course that most people don't even have one SCM tool installed on their system. But for those not using a DVCS, moving from 0 to 1 is the big move, and I am not sure that there is a huge cost to having both git and bzr hosting on gnome.org, for official GNOME projects

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread James Henstridge
2009/1/6 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 17:21 +0900, James Henstridge a écrit : I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via mailing lists or bugzilla could use a DVCS

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Dave Neary wrote: snip This is only true if you don't believe that future contributions to the GNOME base are dependent of the RCS we decide to host on gnome.org (should we decide to host only one). You are of course right. I probably should also have added that

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2009-01-06 klockan 08:21 skrev Max Kanat-Alexander: Git really has no API, you just run the commands and get the output. *Subversion* actually had the best API when I was writing VCI, FWIW. Git and CVS had the worst API, in terms of integration. There may be better modules available now,

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Sandy Armstrong
convinced that the advantages of supporting both outweigh the disadvantages (looking at the usage patterns, not the technical merits). I was on the fence about this, especially because I prefer bzr to git. But Ruben is right on the money. Implementing DVCS should not raise the barrier

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 03:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: So, here is what I'm bringing to the table: I'm volunteering to work with interested fd.o admins and other volunteers to switch GNOME to git. I need to first go check to see if I can secure enough time to lead this, and if I can

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a git-serve plugin for the bzr repo server. I wonder whether you received interesting ideas in the survey

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:01 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a git-serve plugin for the bzr repo server. I

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
to achieve can be documented for all VCS-es (checkout, do some changes and commit or create a patch). Just like various modules are using various programming languages or even build systems. This idea was discussed when the DVCS thing was brought up first. I think Olav was against it for sysadmin

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2009/1/6 Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:01 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-06 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:30 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2009/1/6 Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:01 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Dan Winship
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: [0] I'm reasonably sure it has some. not as the one proposed to avoid pissing off somebody somewhere because we want to be inclusive -- no, lemme rephrase that: we are *fucking afraid of committment*. seriously: an abstraction over DVCS? what have we become? are we *ever

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/5/09, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: 6. Check all the documentation stuff on live.gnome.org that needs to be updated. That is really important because not everybody is familiar with git. There should also be a short introduction to git somewhere on the wiki. And some

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 06:34:47PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:18 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: I am not evading. Stop trying to make this personal. I don't care about CoC, I don't like you're talking

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Ruben Vermeersch
On ma, 2009-01-05 at 12:32 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: On 1/5/09, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: 6. Check all the documentation stuff on live.gnome.org that needs to be updated. That is really important because not everybody is familiar with git. There should also be a

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am I missing something? Make build.gnome.org work with the new setup; I plan to write some requirements (nothing fancy, and stuffs that will most probably be also required elsewhere). There may also be some other infrastructure systems that would require some porting

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Josselin Mouette wrote: BTW, do we have the resources to migrate the repository to the SVN 1.5 format? It looks like, independently from other decisions, a quick and easy way to improve the situation – and to improve it right now, not in 2010. Olav announced it on October 29th:

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: Anyway, I'd rather add John Carr to the sysadmin team. I plan to make a proposal to switch GNOME to a DVCS where Git works using Johns suggestion. Then other sysadmins[1] can suggest whatever proposal they want

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 09:51 -0500, Dan Winship a écrit : It seems pretty clear that the git-over-bzr solution doesn't make the git users any happier than git-over-svn does, so let's not pretend that it's any different from doing just bzr. So, given that we seem to have sysadmin resources

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Am Montag, den 05.01.2009, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann: First of all I want to thank Behdad and the participants of the survey for giving us numbers. Second I want to complain about the direction this discussion takes. No idea why that many people become personal. This is

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Natan Yellin
the wheel, people use either bzr or git, and not both for a reason; depending on a theoretical git serve plugin is just asking for trouble. The way I understood the proposal, bazaar would be the official dvcs and a usable- albeit officially unsupported- git wrapper would be provided. Assuming

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
2009/1/5 Ali Sabil ali.sa...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Uh, but that's exactly how I understood the proposal and I believe that the points I made (that you didn't respond

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
: Thank you for taking the GNOME DVCS Survey. This survey is run on behalf of the GNOME Foundation board of directors, release team, and sysadmin team. The GNOME project is planning a possible move from SVN to a distributed version control system in 2009. The contenders

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Edward Hervey
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 20:32 +, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: In December I ran a distributed version control system survey for GNOME. From the survey opening page: Thank you for taking the GNOME DVCS Survey. This survey

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
First of all I want to thank Behdad and the participants of the survey for giving us numbers. Second I want to complain about the direction this discussion takes. No idea why that many people become personal. This is really unpleasant. Third of all: What so complicated about this migration? As

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 06:34:47PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:18 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: I am not evading. Stop trying to make this personal. I don't care about CoC, I don't like you're talking to me. Please. Stop trying to make this look like it's personal and

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Julien PUYDT
Ali Sabil a écrit : That's not what John's proposal is about ! John wants to use the bzr format as a repository format, and add a git-serve plugin to bzr to be able to talk to the git clients. In other words, you will be able to access the same data using either bzr, git or hg. Well, if people

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:00:52AM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: I'd like to help with another path forward, namely native git repositories since I believe that is what most of the community wants. As you said, it isn't clear how it could work for non-sysadmins to come up with clear proposal

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Andrew Cowie
. But again, whatever. ++ I will close by saying that switching to Bazaar was an unbelievable breath of fresh air after so much pain using Git. I wrote about that briefly here: http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/version-control/git-is-like-cvs.html I've been using DVCS systems

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, [Disclaimer: I wasn't involved in the construction or running of the survey, other than the analysis you saw plus some late feedback on the survey questions (I think my feedback was merely to suggest the other answer for contributor types.)] 2009/1/5 Andrew Cowie

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:40:18 -0500 David Zeuthen da...@fubar.dk wrote: Then what happens when a new version of git with a new feature, incompatible with the git-serve kludge, is released? I don't know if you've talked to the git developers, but they're very firmly against adding any new

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
So, I'm not a GNOME contributor, but I am the author of VCI, a Perl module that interacts with version control systems (currently CVS, Svn, Hg, Git, and Bzr), and so I wanted to chime in a bit on this thread. The first thing to understand is that the git server protocol is very

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Karl Lattimer
Elijah Newren did an initial analysis of the data. His analysis also includes the survey questions and answers. Find it at: http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/ This is pretty decent analysis going on here :) I'd like to remind people of John Carr's

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
would fulfil many of the requirements for having a GNOME DVCS. I'd like to point out that--of the 15 people who regularly use git and bzr--git still won. That isn't a contest. It is a survey. http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/survey/first-picks-permutations.png It seems to me that a lot

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
is incomplete. As you said, the graph is about people knowing two DVCS systems. I wouldn't say I knew 2. Those 6 are incomplete. I highlighted this statistical analysis because those 6 contain the subset of 4 vocal users demanding that we /also/ support bzr. Now before you reply: we have a clear

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Robert Carr
Not to be hostile, but please don't accuse me of holding anything up or being a vocal minority. I have never spoken out, posted, or blogged about any of the DVCS decisions. I think I said in the survey I would prefer bzr, however I didn't really care at the time (and much less since

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread John Carr
Anyway, I'd rather add John Carr to the sysadmin team. I plan to make a proposal to switch GNOME to a DVCS where Git works using Johns suggestion. Then other sysadmins[1] can suggest whatever proposal they want. These proposals can be investigated on merit and then a one can be chosen (chosen

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
such things myself. Further, sysadmin time is not so important. Thank you for voicing your opinion. just all move on? Further, your explanation is incomplete. As you said, the graph is about people knowing two DVCS systems. I wouldn't say I knew 2. Those 6 are incomplete. I

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Karl Lattimer k...@qdh.org.uk wrote: Elijah Newren did an initial analysis of the data. His analysis also includes the survey questions and answers. Find it at: http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/ This is pretty decent

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:48 AM, John Carr john.c...@unrouted.co.uk wrote: I'm not a complete idiot - if it was going to be a degraded, bastardized form of Git I wouldn't waste my time on it. I suppose I might be an evil genius stalling for Bazaar DS9 to be written (sorry for the very bad joke

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: In December I ran a distributed version control system survey for GNOME. From the survey opening page: Thank you for taking the GNOME DVCS Survey. This survey is run on behalf of the GNOME Foundation board of directors, release

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/4/09, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro g...@inescporto.pt wrote: Just in case I am forced to switch to git in the future (being open minded here, although I prefer bazaar), does someone have any advice how to generate a nice GNU style ChangeLog (like what emacs produces) from git commit

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2009-01-04 klockan 15:10 skrev Jason D. Clinton: I'd like to point out that--of the 15 people who regularly use git and bzr--git still won. Two remarks. First remark: In the survey I answered that I do not really know much about git, and that I do not use it often. This has a reason, which I

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 17:48 +, John Carr wrote: As bkor has stated, there are lots of Git users so any implementation will support you, and support you well. That is a requirement. So any talk of my idea is not Git vs Bazaar, its talk of one way we can move forward. So i dont consider it

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zee...@gmail.com wrote: How about we set-up a task-force of volunteers who would want to help in the move, each volunteer promising at least 3 hours a week? 3 hours is a very small amount of time but I am hoping that we'll be able to

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:59 PM, David Zeuthen da...@fubar.dk wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 17:48 +, John Carr wrote: As bkor has stated, there are lots of Git users so any implementation will support you, and support you well. That is a requirement. So any talk of my idea is not Git vs

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
2009/1/4 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro g...@inescporto.pt: Just in case I am forced to switch to git in the future (being open minded here, although I prefer bazaar), does someone have any advice how to generate a nice GNU style ChangeLog (like what emacs produces) from git commit logs? I know

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:40:33AM -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: Moving will not be easy, obviously. But doing it John's way will be, in my

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:01 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: How about we set-up a task-force of volunteers who would want to help in the move, each volunteer promising at least 3 hours a week? 3 hours is a very small amount of time but I am hoping that we'll be able to gather at least 10

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: I can commit that much time as long as there's clear delegation of work by--preferably--the sysadmin team. I don't want to sit on a committee that does a lot of deciding and no actual doing. What do you mean with

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Frederic Peters
David Zeuthen wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 17:48 +, John Carr wrote: As bkor has stated, there are lots of Git users so any implementation will support you, and support you well. That is a requirement. So any talk of my idea is not Git vs Bazaar, its talk of one way we can move

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Luca Ferretti
Il giorno dom, 04/01/2009 alle 16.11 -0500, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: It seems pretty clear to me that any 'homegrown' system like this is not suitable as a longterm, stable solution for a project the size of gnome. BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: bzr allows lightweight checkouts [1]. What about git? Yes, it does. This is not an issue. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Marko Anastasov
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: People using JHBuild to develop one project against latest code or simply testing the whole desktop don't need the full history for all GNOME Desktop modules bzr allows lightweight checkouts [1]. What about git?

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
. BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order to perform a full GNOME Desktop build with jhbuild? A WebKit build from git needs ~740MB :-/ How much does it consume if it's a svn checkout? I heard (don't know if it's true or not) git repo usually takes less diskspace

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 22:47 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: Probably just like bzr already went through several repository formats and allowed easy upgrades (just like Subversion repository format changed and it didn't cause any problem for users). I don't think there is a problem here. I

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Luca Ferretti
this is not suitable as a longterm, stable solution for a project the size of gnome. BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order to perform a full GNOME Desktop build with jhbuild? A WebKit build from git needs ~740MB :-/ How much does it consume if it's a svn

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Frederic Peters
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Luca Ferretti elle@libero.it wrote: bzr allows lightweight checkouts [1]. What about git? Yes, it does. This is not an issue. I think non-git users already knows that git can do everything™, but they would learn about git ways

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Robin Sonefors
this is not suitable as a longterm, stable solution for a project the size of gnome. BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order to perform a full GNOME Desktop build with jhbuild? A WebKit build from git needs ~740MB :-/ How much does it consume if it's a svn checkout? I

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Sebastian Pölsterl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Clasen schrieb: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:59 PM, David Zeuthen da...@fubar.dk wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 17:48 +, John Carr wrote: As bkor has stated, there are lots of Git users so any implementation will support you, and support

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Ali Sabil
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM, David Zeuthen da...@fubar.dk wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 22:47 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: Probably just like bzr already went through several repository formats and allowed easy upgrades (just like Subversion repository format changed and it didn't

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Frederic Peters
David Zeuthen wrote: I don't find this answer compelling. At all. It also doesn't answer the question. It's not unlikely that a future git repo format is fundamentally incompatible with current or future bzr repo formats. Just like I noted it was just an understanding of John's proposal;

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Cody Russell
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:16 +0100, Robin Sonefors wrote: How much does it consume if it's a svn checkout? I heard (don't know if it's true or not) git repo usually takes less diskspace then svn checkout. This page seems to support this claim: A complete git repo is usually smaller than

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Ali Sabil
: It seems pretty clear to me that any 'homegrown' system like this is not suitable as a longterm, stable solution for a project the size of gnome. BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order to perform a full GNOME Desktop build with jhbuild? A WebKit build

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:20 +0100, Ali Sabil wrote: First, it only makes it much harder for users to grasp; we're going to end up with some projects have l.g.o pages / README files / mailing list messages saying use bzr to check out this branch and

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Uh, but that's exactly how I understood the proposal and I believe that the points I made (that you didn't respond to) still stands: That it's crazy to officially want to support git, bzr and hg *at* the same time *from* the same

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:33 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Uh, but that's exactly how I understood the proposal and I believe that the points I made (that you didn't respond to) still stands: That it's crazy to officially want to

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
. The potential problem I see is all of the remote branches will use different DVCS that do not support git + hg + bzr. So eventually all Again: No Hg. of us will be forced to use all three tools in order to merge changes from remote branches (unless we expect *all* people to provide *all

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Ali Sabil
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:29:02PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Uh, but that's exactly how I understood the proposal and I believe that the points I made (that you didn't respond to) still stands: That it's crazy to

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Johannes Schmid
but this won't happen tommorow and I will need a huge amount of time to be finished and tested. And in addition it's unlikely that such a system will support more than a common subset of the features of the underlying DVCS system. First, be honest, we need to decide which system to use. I have

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:58 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:40:18PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Is it *really* so hard to understand that this whole git-serve is a terrible idea? You expect me to reply to this??!? I expected you to reply to the other three mails

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
. will support more than a common subset of the features of the underlying DVCS system. [..] Second, a VCS system is something that just has to work. I doubt many people really care a lot about what system they use as long as it does No need to guess, we can look at the survey. -- Regards

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
-- even as an optional repository format. ciao, Emmanuele. [0] I'm reasonably sure it has some. not as the one proposed to avoid pissing off somebody somewhere because we want to be inclusive -- no, lemme rephrase that: we are *fucking afraid of committment*. seriously: an abstraction over DVCS

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 06:05:30PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:58 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:40:18PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: Is it *really* so hard to understand that this whole git-serve is a terrible idea? You expect me to

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
. This is the only repository format that all major DVCS clients can talk to. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `-our own. Resistance is futile. signature.asc Description: Ceci

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:18 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: I am not evading. Stop trying to make this personal. I don't care about CoC, I don't like you're talking to me. Please. Stop trying to make this look like it's personal and like I'm assaulting you. Because I didn't. And I resent the

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a écrit : On a side note here, I recalled being against dropping ChangeLogs in projects in favour of commit messages. But now I love it and I realize that my main problem was that with SVN I *needed* the ChangeLog since that was

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Marko Anastasov
2009/1/5 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a écrit : On a side note here, I recalled being against dropping ChangeLogs in projects in favour of commit messages. But now I love it and I realize that my main problem was that with

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a écrit : On a side note here, I recalled being against dropping ChangeLogs in projects in favour of commit messages. But now I love it and I realize that my main

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:44 +, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : I'd agree if you could not properly see a project's commit history on a web interface, like with viewvc for svn, but since you can: http://git.clutter-project.org/cgit.cgi?url=clutter/log/ your point is moot. Sorry,

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-04 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
: an abstraction over DVCS? what have we become? are we *ever* going make *any* decision about *anything*? this is actually a larger issue with the GNOME community: we are being afraid. Exactly. The idea that our gnome vcs infrastructure would be run by some homegrown abstraction layer is rather

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi! On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le lundi 17 novembre 2008, à 17:56 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Owen Taylor wrote: Question for gnome-infrastructure: How do we move forward on it? Do we have an easier alternative at hand then just writing

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: So you already on it or you are waiting for someone to get you th list of svn accounts? If latter is the case, It's pretty easily doable using git but unfortunately the dates in the git repos created through git-svn aren't correct (or it seems to be the case).

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: So you already on it or you are waiting for someone to get you th list of svn accounts? If latter is the case, It's pretty easily doable using git but unfortunately the dates in the git

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good timing. I'm working on it. Have a draft of the survey itself. I'm installing a PHP-based survey software now. Then will pass the survey by board, r-t, and sysadmin team, then go about asking people to fill in.

Re: DVCS

2008-12-04 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:25:58PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Good timing. I'm working on it. Have a draft of the survey itself. I'm installing a PHP-based survey software now. Then will pass the survey by board, r-t, and sysadmin team, then go about asking people to fill in. Have not

Re: DVCS

2008-11-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
continuing to use Bazaar if Git win and vice verse. GNOME is by nature a distributed project with a lot of sub modules, maintainers and thus preferences. I think that is doubtful. Most people do not care what VCS GNOME uses. For those who care, and like DVCS, their opinions are probably something

Re: DVCS

2008-11-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 17 novembre 2008, à 17:56 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Owen Taylor wrote: Question for gnome-infrastructure: How do we move forward on it? Do we have an easier alternative at hand then just writing low-tech one off application? I was thinking that we can either use the

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