On 02/20/05 15:12, Graham Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:24:03PM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote:I've been talking to Nico and Goswin and we would like to get started. We don't want to steal more of your time.I've actually already got a repository set up that is hosted with the main fetchmail repository (as a branch in Subversion). Is it alright to use that?
Browsing the repo at berlios I can't find this branch. Am I looking at the right place? Can you send me the svn url of the branch?
I was hoping that if the two other upstream maintainers were satisfied with the direction the package was going, that they would eventually open commit access to the trunk, since development has been so slow lately.
I don't think we really need to merge the Debian part into upstream's trunk. In fact, in my (limited?) maintainer experience, I've found that this tends to confuse upstream. They end up not knowing what to do with the Debian dir, including it in upstream release sources, building their own (badly built) packages, etc. Of course this might not be the case with fetchmail.
We can (and we probably will if upstream is slow) still submit patches to them. They can handle the integration with trunk. Eventually they might start trusting our patches and let us do the commits on their repo.
I'll also be creating a mailing list at Berlios for bug reports and such.If its ok with you we would like to create a project in Alioth and coordinates our efforts there. What we would need is a dump of the current repository to be able to preserve the history of changes.I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to use the current setup or move to Alioth to work. I'm alright with either decision.
Well... We would really like to get started with fetchmail. So if you haven't created the list at berlios I would like to create the Alioth project. Using svk I can also get a fairly decent dump of a remote svn repo myself (it preserves author and dates, revisions just get renumbered). So if you can't, easily, get a real dump tell me were the repo is and I'll get it myself.
Thanks!
K.
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