Re: Call for teams interested in collaborating on a 'standard' Git workflow
On Saturday 30 Jul 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 28/07/11 at 15:36 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems that many different teams have recently switched to Git, or are
> > considering switching. But each of them seems to re-implement the wheel
> > by designing their own Git workflow.
> >
> > I think that it would be fantastic if we could collaborate on defining
> > a common Git workflow.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > If you are interested in participating (which doesn't mean that you
> > commit on behalf of your team to switch to that workflow, just that you
> > want to participate in the discussions), add yourself (and your team) to
> > http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow. If more than 3 teams are
> > interested in a BOF at DC11, I'll try to organize one on saturday (all
> > the video-broadcasted slots are taken, but we will make sure to take
> > notes). If the BOF doesn't happen, I'll contact interested people to see
> > how to continue.
>
> Hi,
>
> So a BOF happened at Debconf 11, and I've put the raw notes online at
> http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow/DebConf11BOF
>
> My understanding of the situation is that we are ready to document a
> workflow including:
> - using git-buildpackage for basic stuff
> - managing several repositories with mr
> - managing and tracking the status of the repositories (e.g with PET)
> - managing patches with quilt (the "nothing fancy" approach)
> + additionally, using a patch-queue system (but which one?) to
> manage patches locally
> - managing debian/changelog with git-dch
>
> Some people expressed interest in starting a proper documentation on
> that on the Debian wiki. I suggest to use the
> http://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingWorkflow (or maybe to extend the
> http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit page).
>
> We probably need more discussion:
> - on patch queue managers
> - on the "one-branch-per-patch" approaches
Eclipse recently moved to one-branch-per-patch, or at least one branch
per issue being fixed. This seems to be the fashion.
David
>
> Also, Raphael Hertzog mentioned that the next version of dpkg will
> unapply patches and remove .pc after the build, which should help with
> managing patches in git.
>
> - Lucas
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