Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread John Carr
Hi, On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  I was one of the happiest person on this planet the day we moved to git and i can't thanks the people involved enough. Although overall i am pretty happy with the migration, I do have one concern: The

Personal branches [Was: Re: fast-forward only policy]

2009-05-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I would suggest a few official branch names like 'master' and 'devel', and a special two character prefix for personal branches like 'za-transcoding-rework' (Zeeshan Ali's personal branch), the rest would be up to the project to decide. A bit like what Zeeshan

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Kjartan Maraas
ma., 04.05.2009 kl. 12.43 -0500, skrev Brian Cameron: Kjartan: gnome-games stopped building in jhbuild for me since we still have clutter-0.8.8 there and the games want to use 0.9.x from what I can see in the logs. Time to move forward for everyone? Anyone else using clutter and thus

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Carr john.c...@unrouted.co.uk wrote: Hi, On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  I was one of the happiest person on this planet the day we moved to git and i can't thanks the people involved enough. Although

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 20:58 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: Could be also good have a minimal feedback from distro packagers. I suppose that even though all relevant GNOME Desktop modules will be switched to WebKitGtk, distros will continue to provide Firefox as standard browser. So Fedora or

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: In this email, I hope I made my case that libchamplain could be a nice addition to the GNOME family. Thanks for the detailed proposal, I updated the wiki page and added libchamplain to the jhbuild moduleset. Cheers, Frederic

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 10:57 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote: Might it be better to wait until clutter-gtk 0.9 is released before jumping to the new version in jhbuild? I could roll a 0.9.0 release of clutter-gtk right now, but it still would be a moving target since we still have changes in

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
Le mardi 05 mai 2009 à 11:49 +0200, Frederic Peters a écrit : Thanks for the detailed proposal, I updated the wiki page and added libchamplain to the jhbuild moduleset. I feel obliged to mention that libchamplain is a dep of eog-plugins, which has never been released yet and it not part of

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Carr john.c...@unrouted.co.uk wrote: So I think you should either allow moving branches such as 'za-transcoding-rework' or have personal repositories on git.gnome.org. I

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 01:51 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Marc-André Lureau marcandre.lur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: [...] what is the point of having 'project' in the

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 04 mai 2009, à 20:58 +0200, Luca Ferretti a écrit : Could be also good have a minimal feedback from distro packagers. I suppose that even though all relevant GNOME Desktop modules will be switched to WebKitGtk, distros will continue to provide Firefox as standard browser. So Fedora or

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 11:02 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : also, using clutter-0.9.2 is strongly discouraged; you should be using git. this is quite like using glib and gtk+ from the master branch during the development cycle. Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-)

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 13:40 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 11:02 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : also, using clutter-0.9.2 is strongly discouraged; you should be using git. this is quite like using glib and gtk+ from the master branch during the development cycle.

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-) providing snapshots, just like glib and gtk+ :-) but the API might change during the development cycle, so you should be aware of that. as far as I know, jhbuild does not build glib and gtk+ from tarballs

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-) providing snapshots, just like glib and gtk+ :-) but the API might change during the development cycle, so you should be aware of

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 10:02 -0500 schrieb Jason D. Clinton: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Clutter is an external dependency, while glib and gtk+ are part of the platform. Policy (and experience) tells to build external dependencies from

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: It's not only a formal distinction. Such policies do not exist just because people are bored. It's based on bad experiences in the past. Why are we having this argument? Is release team going to veto Clutter for 2.28?

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:37 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: Hrm, then what's the point of the development tarballs? :-) providing snapshots, just like glib and gtk+ :-) but the API might change during the development cycle, so you should be aware of that. as far as I know, jhbuild

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 11:21 -0500 schrieb Jason D. Clinton: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: It's not only a formal distinction. Such policies do not exist just because people are bored. It's based on bad experiences in the past. Why are we

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Kjartan: Might it be better to wait until clutter-gtk 0.9 is released before jumping to the new version in jhbuild? Won't clutter-0.9.x work with clutter-gtk-0.8.x? What do you mean by work? You need clutter 0.8 to build clutter-gtk 0.8. They are parallel installable, so if you want

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Emmanuele: I'll make a clutter-gtk 0.9.0 release tarball tomorrow, then. Will it include gobject-introspection support? http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490 Would be nice to support gnome-shell with this, I think. Brian ___

Re: gnome-games requires clutter 0.9.x

2009-05-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 13:32 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Emmanuele: I'll make a clutter-gtk 0.9.0 release tarball tomorrow, then. Will it include gobject-introspection support? http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490 Would be nice to support gnome-shell with this, I think.

Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
Hey folks, I'm taking a hard look at the Platform Overview and how we can improve our message to ISDs through better documentation. Our release sets, unfortunately, don't really reflect what we really recommend to developers. That role has more or less been delegated to the Platform Overview.

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:05 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Hey folks, I'm taking a hard look at the Platform Overview http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/index.html For those who don't know. -- Shaun ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.05 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: Hey folks, [...] The list is what came to mind as I was writing this email. Please feel free to discuss libraries I forgot. Thanks Shaun, you're wonderful as always. I also think it would be nice to mention

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 21:25 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote: Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.05 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: Hey folks, [...] The list is what came to mind as I was writing this email. Please feel free to discuss libraries I forgot. Thanks Shaun, you're

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Shaun: Shouldn't GStreamer be included for media support? If not in the Platform, then at least Recommended? Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? Brian On 05/05/09 14:05, Shaun McCance wrote: Hey folks, I'm taking a hard look at the Platform Overview and how we can improve

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.41 -0500, Brian Cameron ha scritto: Shaun: Shouldn't GStreamer be included for media support? It's in the list (second item of the Recommended section) :-) Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? gvfs could be introduced along with GIO; as for

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 01:51 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Marc-André Lureau marcandre.lur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Felipe Contreras

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Paolo Borelli
Hi Shaun Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.05 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: Recommended === Cairo -- Incredible drawing library, used by GTK+. There seems to be general agreement that developers should use Cairo when they need to do custom drawing. I do not think that

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:53:55PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 01:51 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Marc-André Lureau marcandre.lur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches '1-2' and 'gnome-2-26'. Quick note. If we're going to have short branch names (as I'm planning to use for pango), it should be 1.2, not 1-2. behdad ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:53:55PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 01:51 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod behdad.esfah...@gmail.com wrote: case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches '1-2' and 'gnome-2-26'. Quick note.  If we're going to have short branch names (as I'm planning to use for pango), it should be 1.2, not 1-2.

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: Hey folks, [...] I would like to get people's opinions on what technologies we should be pushing.  I'm interested both in the here and now and in what people think the Gnome 3 message should be. Hi, Great time to

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 04:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod behdad.esfah...@gmail.com wrote: case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches '1-2' and 'gnome-2-26'. Quick note. If we're going to have short branch names (as I'm planning

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 21:59 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote: Hi Shaun Il giorno mar, 05/05/2009 alle 14.05 -0500, Shaun McCance ha scritto: Recommended === Cairo -- Incredible drawing library, used by GTK+. There seems to be general agreement that developers should use Cairo

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:41 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Shaun: Shouldn't GStreamer be included for media support? If not in the Platform, then at least Recommended? It's in there. Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? GVFS doesn't provide API. On the other hand, it does make

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:10:42PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: IMO you should make a good argument to switch, not the other way around. What I'm proposing makes things simpler. Do I need to make a good argument of why simple things are good? You gave as reason 'you just switched your SCM

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 04:20 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: So do we treat Cairo as an implementation detail, or is it something we talk up? My thoughts are that if you're doing anything non-trivial, you're probably going to need to do some custom drawing outside of what GTK+ provides. Cairo is extremely

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Robin Sonefors
On tis, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What would be easier to understand? '1-2' or 'stable'? If I want the sources for the gedit in Gnome 2.26, cloning gedit's repository and checking out the branch

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: To be clear on what I'm proposing: there's no need to add 'project' to branch names when you already know the project ('1-2' is fine). But going into the next level, there's no need to have '1-2', '1-4' and '1-0', 'stable' and 'master'

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 05.05.09 16:33, Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) wrote: What's libdaemon? libdaemon is an implementation detail of pulseaudio as far as I am concerned. Just for correctness' sake: it's an implementation detail of Avahi, not of PulseAudio. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi, I am trying to put some git wishes pros/cons in http://live.gnome.org/Git/Wishes. I surely missed things, but I tried to be neutral. regards, -- Marc-André Lureau Sent from Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 04:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod behdad.esfah...@gmail.com  wrote: case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches '1-2' and

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: libdaemon is an implementation detail of pulseaudio as far as I am concerned. PulseAudio does not use libdaemon, afaik. Avahi, maybe? regards, -- Marc-André Lureau Sent from Helsinki, Southern Finland,

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: Also, what about gvfs, libdaemon, and libunique? GVFS doesn't provide API.  On the other hand, it does make GIO much more awesome.  It's currently discussed in the section on GIO, and I don't have any plans to change

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:10:42PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: IMO you should make a good argument to switch, not the other way around. What I'm proposing makes things simpler. Do I need to make a good argument of why

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:52:54PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:10:42PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: IMO you should make a good argument to switch, not the other way around. What I'm

git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
Heya! Trailing whitespace sucks. git is only half as much fun when people have trailing whitespace in their code. diffs get cluttered up by changes that actually aren't changes. Many other project these days enforce pretty rigid whitespace regimes and I wonder if that would be something to

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can understand that, and I don't really want to fight this fight either. Nonetheless I think this would be good to have and the least I can do is mentioning this on desktop-devel

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:52:54PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:10:42PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: IMO you should

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 23:47 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 04:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod behdad.esfah...@gmail.com wrote: case that's not a

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:33:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:52:54PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, May 05,

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 00:33 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: [...] That's just how git works: branches and tags are mere pointers. There's no difference in the object storage, the only difference is logical, you use branches

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robin Sonefors ozam...@flukkost.nu wrote: On tis, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What would be easier to understand? '1-2' or 'stable'? If I want the sources for the gedit

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 00:33 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: [...] That's just how git works: branches and tags are mere pointers. There's no

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can understand that, and I don't really want to fight this fight either. Nonetheless I think this would

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 00:48 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robin Sonefors ozam...@flukkost.nu wrote: On tis, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What would be easier

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 23:47 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 04:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM,

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:59 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbodbeh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can understand that, and I don't really want to

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: I personally always do a git diff before commit, and look for red-background blocks that represent trailing whitespace and fix them myself. Have your gnome terminal/bash preferences been tweaked? I did a test with git

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 05 mai 2009, à 23:00 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Heya! Trailing whitespace sucks. git is only half as much fun when people have trailing whitespace in their code. diffs get cluttered up by changes that actually aren't changes. Many other project these days enforce pretty

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-05 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le lundi 04 mai 2009 à 16:22 +0100, Alp Toker a écrit : And finally, are there any unported projects remaining? I helped port a few applications and the patches have been integrated, and you've kept things active on the Epiphany side. GIMP, DevHelp, Yelp, Epiphany, Epiphany Extensions, Blam,

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 01:01 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : You don't need a branch to make commits, tag them and push them. $ git checkout PANGO_1_2_4 # make changes $ git commit -a $ git tag PANGO_1_2_5 $ git push origin PANGO_1_2_5 But if you feel icky about not working on a

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-05 Thread John Stowers
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:37 -0400, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: Hi, I would like to propose libchamplain as an external dependency to GNOME 2.28. If you never heard about this project, it is a Clutter based map widget for your application. It currently uses downloaded image tiles as map

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:33:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What would be easier to understand? '1-2' or 'stable'? 'stable' was already

Re: Platform

2009-05-05 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Good catch on libcanberra. It's clearly good for us to have a convenient API for this. Do we really want to push another micro-library for that? Should GTK+ just learn to do it? yeah, in fact, libcanberra provides a libcanberra-gtk

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:59 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbodbeh...@behdad.org  wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 00:48 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robin Sonefors ozam...@flukkost.nu wrote: On tis, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 06:05 PM, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Behdad Esfahbodbeh...@behdad.org wrote: I personally always do a git diff before commit, and look for red-background blocks that represent trailing whitespace and fix them myself. Have your gnome terminal/bash

Re: Proposing libchamplain as an external dependancy for GNOME 2.28

2009-05-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:12 +1200, John Stowers wrote: As the maintainer of osm-gps-map [1], a non-clutter mapping library with comparable features, I support libchamplain's proposal. Thanks for your support. I do not intend to add clutter support to osm-gps-map, it will remain a Gdk/Cairo

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Felipe Contreras wrote: You don't need a branch to make commits, tag them and push them. The current workflow is well understood, works well for translators and other contributors, and is supported by all our tools

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 01:24 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: No. It points to the latest code in the 2.24 branch. There might be code after the release. It's a branch, it's not a tag. So, maybe I don't understand what

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 01:28 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 01:01 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : You don't need a branch to

Re: git and trailing whitespace

2009-05-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 05.05.09 17:06, Behdad Esfahbod (beh...@behdad.org) wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can understand that, and I don't really want to fight this fight either. Nonetheless I think this would be

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 01:24 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: No. It points to the latest code in the 2.24 branch. There might be code after the

GConf branched

2009-05-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
I've just created a gnome-2-26 branch for GConf. I had to remove a single translation from ne.po before being able to do so, since msgfmt -c was complaining about it. The reason for branching is that I want to fix http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558619 which will allow the defaults

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand 'gnome-2-0' is not pointing to any release, there where commits after the last release. So my question here is: who would care about those commits? They were done 6 years ago and nobody

Re: fast-forward only policy

2009-05-05 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:13:07AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:33:59AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What