2009/3/13 Dennis Schridde <[email protected]>: > 1) Have a someone maintain the mainline repository on Gitorious and prepare > releases from there. > > Or my favourite: > 2) Assign a release maintainer (practically we already did that for 2.0 and > 2.1), and he will fetch all the loose ends from the dev repos and for version > X his repository will be what becomes the official version. > > 2 is my favourite, because it is the freemost variant, dead simple, not too > much additional workload, we can easily shift the load around, ..., etc. > If we had someone insane in the team, or someone being paid for it, 1 would > probably be the first logical solution, since (s)he would devote their > lifetime to the game anyway. But since we don't 2 looks a lot more promising > to me. >
2 still requires a release maintainer, which has the same issues as #1. And what happens when the release maintainer finds conflicts between the dev repos? Lots of wasted time/effort there, I think. Sure, no one ships directly from SVN trunk, but they ship directly from their release branch. I again suggest Google Code (SVN). The last time I suggested it, the only objection was that EvilGuru disliked that even though Google would near certainly accept the request, they have the choice to reject the request. Which is a rather silly objection, since Gna had a project approval process, too. Google just has it for projects larger than 100 MB. I could e-mail them and ask. I would send them something like: > Hello, Google Code staff. > > We, the developers of Warzone 2100, an open-source cross-platform > real-time strategy game (wz2100.net), are considering hosting our project > at Google Code. > > Our project is fairly large - each branch is around 200-600 MB > uncompressed (Trunk is 400-600 MB depending on whether or not > FMVs/cinematics are included), an installer is ~50 MB, not including > the FMVs/cinematics, which are ~130 MB. In other words, we're well > above your default 100 MB limit. > > Can you host us? > > - Zarel Objections? Approval? -Zarel _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
