Wed 2008/Jun/25

• Git-mirror.gnome.org is AWESOME and John Carr deserves large amounts of beer for it. The git-mirror has already saved my ass twice this week ("Where is this patch in trunk? Was it backported to the stable branch?"). Now that we actually have full Git repositories of GNOME, we could easily move to using Git for everything.

  Søren, Bryce, James, and myself had a pretty productive time hacking on support for RANDR 1.2 in gnome-desktop, gnome-settings-daemon, and gnome-control-center, all in Git repositories.

  Gitorious is like a free version of Github: you can create public Git repositories in a central server, push to them, and monitor who clones your repositories. Later those people can inform you, "I have some cool stuff in my repo; you should fetch those changes from it". Or you can say the same to them, and Gitorious/Github will notify the people in question. This is far, far more productive than monitoring an svn-commits-list or similar.

  Gitorious is hosted in a Gitorious installation itself, so you can of course "git clone" is source code. It would be reasonably easy to use this in GNOME's infrastructure, and it would automatically let module maintainers communicate better with contributors (and allow contributors to play with experimental branches without disrupting the maintainer's work).

• ... Which reminds me, if you are tired of wasting your time with Subversion, be sure to attend the BoF on distributed version control systems at GUADEC, where Behdad and yours truly will delight you with our widely-acclaimed acrobatic act.

Syndicated 2008-06-25 12:37:00 from Federico Mena-Quintero - Activity Log