[ros-dev] GIT mirror

[Samuel serapion]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com>wrote:



> That being said as a (sometime) developer on Wine and a (even less
> active) ReactOS developer, I think that having a git gateway is a good
> idea. I like git, I most likely will use the git mirror for my stuff.
> Even the Linux kernel has CVS and SVN gateways and everyone knows how
> much Linus hates them. If nothing else a git gateway will enable those
> developers that wont to take advantage of the branching support and
> are comfortable with git to develop in the way that works best for
> them. If others want to setup an Hg mirror then more power to them
> too! I am all for the Hg and Git mirrors but...
>

Yeah, lets try to spin this little debate into a new direction. We could
find a way to convert commits from git to svn or have some simple diff
mechanism that would sync git-tree into the main svn tree. Dunno... sounds
messy, maybe a bad idea. How do the linux kernel nuts maintain these
gateways consistent ?


> The VCS is not the big bottleneck! I mean don't get me wrong, private
> branches and every commit being a branch is cool as hell but that
> feature alone is not what will really bring massive ROI to this
> project.
>

> I think Alex does not mind the idea of these gateways either, its just
> that he like I don't wish to see the finite amount of energy we have
> at our disposal spent on projects bringing little return. This is why
> I gave up when I was attempting to import to git a few months back. I
> managed to get trunk imported but then it was taking days to import
> the branches and didn't want to waste the few precious seconds I had
> to devote to ReactOS spent on a futile effort (for me anyway). I am
> glad someone else has a mirror up though. Like I said, I will use it!
>

I'm glad people understand this point, there are many people willing to
spend *some* time debugging, fixing bugs, testing and generally dicking
around for ros... unfornunetly a lot, if not most, of this time is wasted
fighting with the build system, and/or having to repeatedly install, restart
or copy crap. If it feels like an extra burden people are not going to
accept it. The last thing people want is to be forced to learn a new system
(which also takes time). So for now I think we should keep the git mirror
and let people experiment with it...


>
> That being said, I believe the ReactOS team needs to focus fixing
> other things like the build system and support for MSVC. I believe a
> concerted effort to fix rbuild and msvc support will yield an
> exponential return on investment in terms of bringing in new
> developers.


Can I have some fries with that?


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Samuel Serapión Vega
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