Hi John, thanks for setting up the Haskell group! Am Donnerstag, den 02.07.2009, 22:10 -0500 schrieb John Goerzen: > * Submitted a ticket to the Alioth admins to create our Git area I’d like to kick of a (short) discussion as to what’s the best repository layout and VCS choice for the group is. Given that we are going to maintain a large number of very similar packages, a common use case will be making similar adjustments to all packages at once. This would very much benefit from having one VCS repository for all packages. Another pro of one repository is that it’s easier to get all packages at once. I’m influenced by the Debian Perl Group which I founded 5 years ago and left shortly after :-). I’d like to advocate following it’s lead, given it’s success of handling a very large number (1170!) of similar packages well – obviously quite a similar situation than ours. Using a similar repository layout than they, we can re-use their tools. Especially http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi is interesting, as it helps checking for new upstream releases and coordinates the process of sponsoring packages. Information on the DPG’s SVN layout can be found here: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/subversion.html#2__repository_anatomy Now, this is of course just an suggestion. I’m also fine with working with git, or darcs, or whatever :-) (Darcs, of course, has some charm on it’s own for a Debian Haskell Group. Marco uses darcs to only keep the debian/ directories under version control: http://code.haskell.org/debian/ – this might also be a viable option. I guess John, being the author of darcs-buildpackage, can best guess if it’s a good idea to use Darcs). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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