On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like the ideal conditions for Git. > > Just set up a server at your office using any Git related software you > want, like Gitorious or even GitWeb. Developers set their projects up > on your local server, and when they reach some level of stability they > create public repositories on git.sugarlabs.org. > I would like to set up gitorious but not sure how difficult this would be > Do all your development on your local server, and every once a while > push the changes over to SL. > > git push gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:myproject/mainline.git > > If SL people want to make changes, they clone the repository on > git.sugarlabs.org and push to it. > We will have about 60 individual repos by April and hopefully several hundred by the end of 2010. It will be impractical and error-prone is we have to create each repo twice, once on our local server and once on the SL server. Is there a way to automate this? > git push gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:myproject/wadebs-clone.git > > The SL person lets the author know by email, and the author pulls the > changes to their local repository, merges them, and pushes them to > your internal server. > > git pull gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:myproject/wadebs-clone.git > .. do merge work > git push usern...@local-git-server:myproject.git > > Does this help at all? > > -Wade > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org> wrote: > > I want to discuss some issues for managing Karma lessons on glso. Please > let > > it be clear that I am not criticizing the infrastructure team __at_all__. > I > > think they are doing a great job. The issues I am encountering have to do > > with underlying tools and some issues specific to developers working in > > countries w/ crappy bandwidth, such as Nepal. > > Some of the main goals of the Karma Project are to get more developers in > > general involved in creating content for Sugar and to make OLE Nepal's > > content development more accessible and open to developers inside and > > outside Nepal. We have a full-time team of 7 sw engineers, 3 graphic > > designers, and 3 teachers working on content. It would be a crying shame > if > > we can't work with the larger community. > > One big problem for devs here in Nepal is that international bandwidth is > > both lousy and expensive. Conversely, w/in Kathmandu bandwidth is > relatively > > high-speed and cheap. I have up to 2 Mbps w/in Nepal but get around 30 > kbps > > for a site hosted outside Nepal. > > The Karma repos are big and there will soon be many. The main Karma repo > > will be 10-15 MB and each individual lesson will be in its own repo, > usually > > 2-4 MB. I hope to have about 60 individual karma activities under source > > control. That will be easily 200 MB. Transferring files of that size over > > slow international links will really cramp our development cycle. At the > > same time we need for the Karma lessons to be easily accessible > > internationally. > > A working solution will have to start with a server inside Nepal hosting > the > > Karma content. OLE Nepal can likely provide the server space. Would it be > > possible for us to set up our own instance of gitorious? My impression is > > that everyone is waiting to move to the gitorious instance but something > is > > holding it up. Even if g.sl.o migrates to > > gitorious.org how difficult would it be to set up an instance in Nepal. > Or > > will it be too hard to set up a gitorious instance and we should just use > > something simple for Karma like cgit? > > So say we do set up an instance of gitorious here in Nepal. How could we > > make it easy for others outside Nepal to access the code and contribute > > back? If you are outside Nepal, downloading from a server in Nepal also > > sucks due to the bandwidth issue. Would it be feasible to set up a > read-only > > mirror of Nepal's repositories on the Sugar infrastructure? > > I would like there to be a writable set of repositories on an > international > > server but I can't imagine how the this mirror would sync w/ the Nepal > > server without lots of nasty conflicts. > > Sugaristas, please let me know what you think > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > >
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