KDE development with git

[Thiago Macieira]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
>Am Freitag 13 Juli 2007 schrieb Simon Hausmann:
>> > So, no git.kde.org.
>>
>> It's sad to see a request for a playground area just being shut down
>> like this with non-technical arguments.
>
>I see the mentioning of "playground area" here for the first time. And
> the reasons not to do it _are_ of non-technical level. Technically a
> lot is possible. It just doesn't make sense - non-technically.

People weren't asking for a playground area. They were asking for an 
official area where they could develop their applications. And there were 
technical arguments in my other email (point #2: scripty, EBN and 
Coverity).

Setting up a playground area is easy. But the users of that area must be 
aware that it may be erased and reset at any time -- just like 
svn.kde.org was before we did the final switch.

For one thing, I think it would be interesting to have git.kde.org and 
hg.kde.org[1] with the history for a couple of modules, just so that we 
can play with the tools and learn them. And also to find the conversion 
mistakes and help the tools' developers in fixing their bugs -- like we 
did to Subversion.

That's a playground area.

[1] Here you can see my preferences for Mercurial and Git.
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