On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Steven Edwards
<winehacker@gmail.com> wrote:
That being said as a (sometime) developer on Wine and a (even less
active) ReactOS developer, I think that having a git gateway is a good
idea. I like git, I most likely will use the git mirror for my stuff.
Even the Linux kernel has CVS and SVN gateways and everyone knows how
much Linus hates them. If nothing else a git gateway will enable those
developers that wont to take advantage of the branching support and
are comfortable with git to develop in the way that works best for
them. If others want to setup an Hg mirror then more power to them
too! I am all for the Hg and Git mirrors but...
Yeah, lets try to spin this little debate into a new direction. We could find a way to convert commits from git to svn or have some simple diff mechanism that would sync git-tree into the main svn tree. Dunno... sounds messy, maybe a bad idea. How do the linux kernel nuts maintain these gateways consistent ?
The VCS is not the big bottleneck! I mean don't get me wrong, private
branches and every commit being a branch is cool as hell but that
feature alone is not what will really bring massive ROI to this
project.
I think Alex does not mind the idea of these gateways either, its just
that he like I don't wish to see the finite amount of energy we have
at our disposal spent on projects bringing little return. This is why
I gave up when I was attempting to import to git a few months back. I
managed to get trunk imported but then it was taking days to import
the branches and didn't want to waste the few precious seconds I had
to devote to ReactOS spent on a futile effort (for me anyway). I am
glad someone else has a mirror up though. Like I said, I will use it!
I'm glad people understand this point, there are many people willing to spend some time debugging, fixing bugs, testing and generally dicking around for ros... unfornunetly a lot, if not most, of this time is wasted fighting with the build system, and/or having to repeatedly install, restart or copy crap. If it feels like an extra burden people are not going to accept it. The last thing people want is to be forced to learn a new system (which also takes time). So for now I think we should keep the git mirror and let people experiment with it...
That being said, I believe the ReactOS team needs to focus fixing
other things like the build system and support for MSVC. I believe a
concerted effort to fix rbuild and msvc support will yield an
exponential return on investment in terms of bringing in new
developers.
Can I have some fries with that?
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo