Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-10 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On 10/9/07, Alec leamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, just shut up. Amen, brother... --alec aka The new committer Congratulations... and remember: With great power comes great responsibility. :) ___ Wengophone-devel mailing list

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 02:44:32 Sean Bride wrote: On 10/8/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please enlighten me as to how a distributed version control system automatically solves the problem of community governance and software maintenance processes, I'm eager to find out what it

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:30:43 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: centralized SCM. decentralized, I mean. Aurélien ___ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com http://dev.openwengo.com/mailman/listinfo/wengophone-devel

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Sean Bride
On 10/9/07, Aurélien Gâteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, BTW, I am pretty sure Dave would be aware of any switch of gnome to some centralized SCM. You might want to educate yourself about him. I do educate myself, here is the thread:

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread aurelien . gateau
On 10/9/07, Aurélien Gâteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenWengo could do it quickly but it seems like its masters don't feel like doing so because they live in a wonderland where centralized is more powerful than decentralized SCM, some people call this wonderland the past, let's hope they

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sean Bride wrote: with Jeff Waugh, one of the biggest gnome dev Calling Jeff fat is really insulting. (http://live.gnome.org/JeffWaugh) saying: By his own admission, Jeff doesn't code, never has on GNOME, and is a marketing dude more than anything else. So... hyperbola comes easy to

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Sean Bride
On 10/9/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By his own admission, Jeff doesn't code, never has on GNOME, and is a marketing dude more than anything else. So... hyperbola comes easy to him, and he's not God on this subject in GNOME. My bad then :) , Jeff is not a dev but you can see from

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-09 Thread Alec leamas
Hey, whats your objective? If it's to make this bunch of developers going to change their mind, face the fact: you have failed. It's doesn't really matter what you say at this point, unless you apologize for all the lack of netiquette you have showed in your messages.. People are angry with

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Alec, Alec leamas wrote: OK folks, I'm the new committer. And I'm just a little curios about the subject line for this discussion. Something I should know? ;-) It's just that every time people talk about a core development team, someone comes out of the woodwork to say that we

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-08 Thread Sean Bride
On 10/8/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just that every time people talk about a core development team, someone comes out of the woodwork to say that we wouldn't have this problem if we used a decentralised system That's probably because you actually wouldn't have that problem if

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sean, Sean Bride wrote: On 10/8/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just that every time people talk about a core development team, someone comes out of the woodwork to say that we wouldn't have this problem if we used a decentralised system That's probably because you

Re: Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-08 Thread Sean Bride
On 10/8/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please enlighten me as to how a distributed version control system automatically solves the problem of community governance and software maintenance processes, I'm eager to find out what it is I've been missing. well, you're the dev manager so I

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
Sean Bride wrote: Our requirements are pretty specific: * Source control system must be cross-platform, and fast Git is cross-platform and fast. It runs perfect on windows now: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ * A central canonical source for the software is essential Git does

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-07 Thread Sean Bride
On 10/7/07, Andreas Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is git submodule already done? We need this feature. We make heavy use of svn externals. yep, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules

Ang: Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-07 Thread Alec leamas
OK folks, I'm the new committer. And I'm just a little curios about the subject line for this discussion. Something I should know? ;-) --alec ___ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-06 Thread Sean Bride
I don't understand why wengo devs don't want to switch to something more powerful like git or mercurial where everybody can commit easily and send nice patches and actually *help* the openwengo more efficiently. Don't you want the community to help the project? why are you being so stubborn about

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-06 Thread Patrick Aljord
that was a little harsh but I agree with Sean, Git is way better than svn and it's also much easier to switch from svn to git than from SCons to cmake :-) ___ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-06 Thread Andreas Schneider
Sean Bride wrote: I don't understand why wengo devs don't want to switch to something more powerful like git or mercurial where everybody can commit easily and send nice patches and actually *help* the openwengo more efficiently. Don't you want the community to help the project? why are you

Re: [Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-06 Thread Sean Bride
Our requirements are pretty specific: * Source control system must be cross-platform, and fast Git is cross-platform and fast. It runs perfect on windows now: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ * A central canonical source for the software is essential Git does canonical too. * An easy

[Wengophone-devel] New committer

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the addition of a new committer to the OpenWengo repository, Alec Leamas. In the past month or so, he has done great work on the ALSA driver for phmedia, and has shown a great ability to identify problems and exercise good judgement. Alec, welcome to the team!