Re: About the devel "branch"

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:02:59PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:10:06 +0200
> Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:31:04AM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:19:48 +0200
> > > Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:56:44PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > > 
> > > > > The devel branch is now totally out of sync with the recent progress
> > > > > made in stable, and just correspond to an old stable version.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Maybe we could just drop it and use a real CVS branch instead ?
> > > > > That would allow us to apply patches from stable to devel, and in the
> > > > > meantime to start some more deeper modifications if we want to.
> > > > 
> > > > What about moving to subversion or some other more modern revision 
> > > > control
> > > > system ?
> > > 
> > > Yeah subversion looks really cool (I just read the manual today :)
> > > 
> > > Which are the other modern revision control systems ?
> > 
> > arch, bazzar, darcs, git , not sure if they are other.
> > 
> > We already have a subversion repo on aliot though, which i use for the 
> > debian
> > packaging of parted, and migration can be instantaneous, and i believe the 
> > ue
> > of subversion over the other solution is much less barrier to entry than the
> > other systems.
> 
> I took a quick look, and i think svn looks just good for us.
> I don't think we really need a decentralized VCS, the repository migration 
> cost
> is low (as low as null cause you already have a svn repo :P ), and it's very 
> easy
> to use when you already know CVS.
> So as everybody agree let's use it :)
> 
> Leslie wanted to use Berlios to put everything there, so do we wait until it's
> ready or can we just switch from cvs to svn on alioth and maybe transfer the
> whole repository later (if it's possible (and usefull ?))

That would be the fastest thing to do, so we don't need to move the group who
already have access. I will import the CVS repo 9including history) tomorrow,
and then we can see later on.

Friendly,

Sven Luther