Re: svn management, git, etc

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:15:21PM +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
[...]
> > So David, do what you want, I have no strong opinion on anything related to
> > SCM, but please let us have fun.  This is surely what you want too, I hope
> > it will happen soon.
> 
> I'm truly sorry you feel that way. I had no idea. Please give me some
> feedback on what you want to make things more fun.

Here are some things that annoy me:
  * Flood of SVN commits to debian-x.
    I can use a procmail rule to filter them, but I often browse web
    archives.  See for instance current archive:
      http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/08/threads.html
    Dak messages are also annoying, but there is not much we can do
    if we want the Maintainer field to be debian-x.  IMO commit messages
    could be sent to another list, maybe at teams.debian.net?
    This is especially true when there is an experimental branch, see
  * Web SVN interface:
    I do not know if there is a good SVN web interface, svn.debian.org
    is not better than XSF.  http://git.freedesktop.org/ looks much more
    usable.
  * SVN layout:
    This one is really minor, but there are some strange things, like
    /tags which contains monolith/, or the contents of /tags/debian/{,xorg/}
  * Lack of documentation:
    Documentation is never where I am looking for, this is bad ;)
    For instance, I read Branden's message
      http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/08/msg00055.html
    about his tutorial on svn when coming back from vacation.  As it did
    not contain an URL, I did not go to the wiki and after reading
    hundreds of mails I forgot about Branden's post.  I found his (very good)
    tutorial[0] yesterday when browsing XSF docs on the wiki.  IMO sending
    this tutorial to the list with a link to the wiki would be much better,
    people could read it easily and send comments.
    Enough rants, since anyone can contribute to this one without any
    particular knowledge, I hereby volunteer to work on improving current
    documentation.  Not sure if it will be fun, but definitely useful ;)

Denis
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/svn-usage