On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Since Matju has stated that desire is a fork, I think it would be most beneficial to all of us, including the desire people, if it used its own repository.
Non Sequitur. Do you know what the letters CVS mean? They mean CONCURRENT VERSIONING SYSTEM. Where are the concurrent versions in there, if the only branch that is there is Hans-approved Miller- approved MAIN ?
pd-devel is already pretty far afield for being a branch, it seems to have many changes that are never intended to be merged into the main.
Most CVS branches ever made are not meant to be merged back in. (Which CVS repositories have you used apart from CVS's ?)
However, what's different from most branches, is that devel_0_39 and desiredata are full of changes that would never be merged into the core anyway, but it's not something that you are willing to understand.
gaim-vv is a great example. It was a fork of gaim to implement voice and video, which the intention of folding it back into gaim. Nonetheless, they opened up their own repository.
So, why did they open up their own repository? There's an explanation missing in the reasoning here. Why is the situation of gaim-vv particularly similar to the one of DesireData? Were there political issues over shared resources like access control lists?
I guess I should have plodded tenderly on this one since it is sensitive ground. I am just tired of the arguments. I was just making a suggestion on technical grounds. You are free to fight over devel with others as far as I am concerned, but seems to be a waste of everyone's time. Perhaps everyone would be happier if there was some technical separation. That could happen with a CVS branch or using other repositories.
Matju, since you quite clearly declared that desire is a fork, and from what I have seen in the FLOSS world, forks generally have separate repositories, I thought it might work for you. No harm done either way in my book.
.hc
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