Hello maintainers of pidgin, I have a proposal for you.
Personally I do all my package maintainance in git and I find it quite useful to be able to easily merge upstream and rebase my patches. There's also the vcs-pkg[1] initiative which has interesting package maintenance workflows based on git. So this is my idea: have a repository where all the pidgin releases are available in a form so that package mantainers can quickly fetch them. Optionally, each package maintainer can push their patches to this repository so that other people can easily fetch them, and perhaps even share patches between distributions! I've been working on an exact replica of Pidgin's mtn repository. I believe the latest instance of such task is as good as it's every going to get (which is quite good :). The tool (mtn git_export) is now officially part of mtn so everyone can do the conversion themselves and the results would be identical. My proposal would be my current pidgin-clone repository. But alternatively I could create another repository where only the tagged releases are available, so the size of the repo would be much smaller. Also, I guess some maintainers might want the tarball contents as opposed to the versioned files, that could also be versioned in the same repo. So, what do you think? [1] http://vcs-pkg.org/ -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
