Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:08:03 +0100 Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 08, 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> P.S. bzed, POX, isn't it time to move our packaging to git? So that I
>> can just commit such patches in a branch and also so that we don't
>> have to mess with the orig.tar.gz, svn-uscan and other things -- i.e.
>> everything will be in one git repo, so users can just download, hit
>> one command and they have a working package (as opposed to the current
>> scheme, were they need to download svn, then setup some tarball
>> directories, then setup svn-uscan, then execute it and only then they
>> can actually build the package, so it's very annoying for casual users
>> to setup the environment to contribute to the packaging)
>
> WARNING bikeshedding VCS discussion spotted!
>
> Executive suggestion: we wont be able to use the same VCS for all
> packages; use whatever the top contributors prefer, not what all
> contributors to all packages prefer.
>
I'll argue we want something different. We want VCS that will maximize participation. That means both keeping top contributors happpy and keeping it accessible to newcomers.
I don't think hg, bzr, or git obviously qualify as accesible. My vote, fwiw, is to stay with svn until we have a documented, accessible workflow with tool support.
Scott K
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