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Re: A couple more subversion notes
On 20 Oct 2005 08:58:36 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis
<gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
>
> | Re: moving to subversion
> |
> | On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:19:52PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> | > We've discussed this extensively at CodeSourcery, and I think everyone
> | > is uniformly in favor. The superior branch facilities are a key
> | > benefit. You got us through the Bugzilla transition, and that's working
> | > well. Make it happen.
> |
> | It seems that there is consensus, but let's be sure. Certainly as the guy
> | who has to produce the releases, Mark's voice should weigh most heavily.
> |
> | Are there any maintainers (folks in MAINTAINERS) who have objections or
> | concerns?
>
> I've been travelling for the last couple or so weeks and did not have
> the chance to test the svn repo. I'm following the discussion to get
> an idea of the transition issues and I must say I do have concerns.
> If to make this work, we have to require the latest system tools X, Y
> and Z, then we're placing too high a barrier. Not everybody does its
> development on its own laptop it can reformat or fiddle with. I'm
> looking forward to solutions that lower the entry barrier,
> specifically with repect too OpenSSH, diff and svk.
If it is at all possible we should probably try to keep read-only CVS working
(and up-to-date) for HEAD and release-branches. This will allow occasional
contributors and technically-less-provided people to continue working in
submit-patch mode or in regular testing without raising the barrier for them.
I guess it should be possible with some commit-trigger scripts which svn
surely has?
Just another 2 cents,
Richard.