DVCS packaging for Mer

2009-06-20 Thread David Greaves
Hi A little background: I am working on a small distro called Mer [1] which is a community distro version of Nokia's Maemo platform for their mobile internet devices. For arm support reasons we are based over both Ubuntu and Debian using OBS; we support a variety of touch devices including N8x0, F

Re: output from the vcs-pkg BoF @DebConf9

2009-08-05 Thread David Greaves
martin f krafft wrote: > 1. Add the current set of workflows to our website. > >It would be great if the currently "accepted" set of workflows >were to be summarised directly on the webpage, so that we can >"officialise" them and deprecate all the others floating around. > >The wo

Re: elegant(?) debian topgit workflow?

2009-12-24 Thread David Greaves
Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: >> branches >> >> >> upstream > > I would call it 'master'. That's how upstream would call it. > >> debian/*, fixes/*, features/* - topgit branches based on upstream >> patches - the hero >> master - contains

Re: rethinking patch management with GIT / topgit

2010-03-28 Thread David Greaves
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I have heard people say that distributions should not carry >> feature branches or long term fixes, but push it upstream; but in a >> non ideal world some upstreams do not respond as quickly as one wants, >> and secondly, a user obsessi

Re: rethinking patch management with GIT / topgit

2010-03-28 Thread David Greaves
Petr Baudis wrote: > No, I'm not saying that, I only stated my motivation. TopGit was > designed to provide universal support for distributed workflows. I'd like to see and understand the underlying flows that tg automates. I've pointed at this before: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/UsingGit