ANNOUNCEMENT
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OpenOffice.org developers,
I'm very pleased to announce, that after five months of piloting,
implementation and and testing, we are finally ready to switch
OpenOffice.org development to Mercurial (hg) as our SCM (Source Code
Management) tool.
Mercurial is a modern and flexible distributed SCM tool with the fast
and convenient merging capability which is so required for OOo development.
We have chosen Mercurial out of the three major open source DSCM tools
available (Git, Bazaar and Mercurial) because we believe that its
combination of ease of use, flexibility and performance fits best with
the overall OOo needs. We are well aware that a slightly different
emphasis on the selection criteria might well have led to a choice of
Git or Bazaar, which are both very capable DSCMs as well.
Details:
We'll switch the DEV300 development code line first, the OOO320
(OpenOffice.org 3.2 release code line) will follow later. We certainly
don't want to interfere with the OOo 3.2 release.
The DEV300 switch will happen around the 26th of October. The current
DEV300 hg mirror repository on hg.services.openoffice.org will be
elevated to *the* reference repository, where release engineering pushes
released milestones. Simultaneously release engineering will stop to
commit new milestones to the current Subversion (svn) trunk.
Please stay tuned!
During the course of the next two weeks I'll make a number of
announcements regarding the switch to Mercurial:
- where to find documentation
- which will be the last svn based milestone
- conversion of child workspaces to hg
- conventions which we will use
Regards
Heiner
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Jens-Heiner Rechtien
OpenOffice.org release engineer
h...@openoffice.org
jens-heiner.recht...@sun.com
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