Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: And this all is naturally from the developer/maintainer POV, as translators and documentors do not benefit from this as

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi all, Could you please move this discussion to d-d-l and/or gnome-infrastructure? This mailing list is definitely not the place to discuss SCM in GNOME. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/10, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: 2007/9/8,

About Planet GNOME

2007-09-10 Thread Quim Gil
Hello everybody, The board received a request from Valek Filippov about the administration of http://planet.gnome.org . We accepted it for discussion and this is the conclusion we have got: - Planet GNOME is an official GNOME subsite and for that reason it is good to have more than one person

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I know Planet GNOME maintenance has been patchy -- I've been thinking about ways to alleviate that while keeping strong editorship in place. The Board has prompted me about this too, so I have plenty of incentive to resolve it without any

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:17 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Hi, Olav, You are ignoring the central place. You need somewhere all GNOME devs are able to commit. This is what is so wrong about www.gnome.org/~foo/git/. The interesting question is, why are people doing ~foo/git/blah in the first

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:43 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Does this need to be any more complicated than having a planet-gnome module on SVN, and a README that says to add someone to the feed, put him in people.xml? Then anyone who has a SVN account can add someone else to Planet.

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On 9/10/07, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: svn-commits-list exists and you can limit the email receive to one or more projects (or all). Right, but like I said I'm not sure it scales anymore; there's too much stuff in svn to want to get an email per commit. If you limit to only your

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:05:18PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:17 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Hi, Olav, You are ignoring the central place. You need somewhere all GNOME devs are able to commit. This is what is so wrong about www.gnome.org/~foo/git/.

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 17:01 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Then the daily summary could be in the planet gnome feed, perhaps. I don't know, I'm sure there are better solutions, and it's academic unless someone turns up who decides to try and code something. Just throwing out ideas.

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:21 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: That's the way things are handled ATM. With the exception that only Jeff is supposed to commit to the appropriate file (there's a README or HACKING somewhere there). Well, we can certainly stea^H^H^H^Hfree Jeff from the drudgery of

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:23:28PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:21 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote: That's the way things are handled ATM. With the exception that only Jeff is supposed to commit to the appropriate file (there's a README or HACKING somewhere

Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 23rd Auguest 2007

2007-09-10 Thread Glynn Foster
Present: Lucas, Anne, Glynn, Quim, Rosanna, Jeff Regrets: Behdad, Vincent 1) Zana's planning to be out of action with a baby due at the end of November. She commented that she has 2 weeks off per year as is the minimum requirement working for a single employee organization. Quim

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Sanford Armstrong
On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. This is an unfortunate cultural relic created by arch/tla, and hilariously

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, I hate to do this but... again... please move this discussion to a more appropriate mailing list like d-d-l or gnome-infrastructure. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/11, Sanford Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-10 Thread Curtis Hovey
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:41 -0700, Sanford Armstrong wrote: On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sanford Armstrong I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. This is an

Re: Creating new modules (was Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

2007-09-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Havoc Pennington Bringing it back to the present, there's stuff on svn.mugshot.org that really belongs on gnome.org, but it seems it didn't end up there. I don't think this was a conscious thing, but I think it probably was due to just enough of a barrier to create a new gnome