Hi Dennis,

On 23 Sep 2008, at 08:28, Dennis Schridde wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 06:08:37 schrieb bugs buggy:
>> I was thinking it might be a good time to either split the  
>> repository into
>> dedicated sections, or have multiple repositories.
> Can someone state the pros and cons for that? (esp. the pros...)  
> What led to
> that idea?

Easier for distributors/packagers (separate packages). We are not all  
forced to re-download ~20MiB of images when someone decides to re- 
compress the tiles/textures.

>> One should be only used for source, and the other only for data.
>>
>> The question remains, do we stick with GNA, even though they still  
>> are
>> having some issue?
> What issues do they have? I was told by non-Gna-members that the SVN  
> server
> had been replaced? (Sadly my communications with the project itself  
> can
> somehow not be established... :( )

It works fine for me.

>> Is having multiple repositories allowed on GNA?
> I would have to investigate whether multiple repositories for one  
> project are
> possible via Savana. But having multiple projects for one thing on  
> Gna is
> afaik not an issue (this is not an official statement, will have to  
> ask for
> that, too :P ). I am building this view on the statement "Large  
> software
> distributions are not allowed; they should be split into separate  
> projects."
> as found on https://gna.org/register/.

Thanks, would really appreciate it if you could.

> To bring this up again: Why exactly can we not host our repository on
> wz2100.net? That sounds like the most effective and simple solution  
> to me...
> (In case we move away from Gna for whatever reason...)
> We'd lack the project management functions as found in Savana, but  
> then we are
> not that many people and adding a new SVN access every few months  
> doesn't
> sound too bothersome. Permission to do that can even be handed out  
> to other
> project members, so our admin (*waves to Kamaze*) does not have to  
> be bothered
> with it.

What if Kamaze gets hit by a bus? Or goes nuts and rm -rf's everything?

Regards, Freddie.

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