RFC: remove qt-copy

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi all ...

since it's finally come up on the kde-commit list, i'd like to make a "formal" 
proposal regarding qt-copy, namely:

Proposal
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* Use http://qt.gitorious.org/+kde-developers/qt/kde-qt instead of qt-copy
* Remove qt-copy from our svn repository after a post-announcement grace 
period (so that we don't pull the rug out from under people)

Details and Benefits
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Any KDE developer can be added to the kde-developers team and thereby have 
commit access, just as we do now.

Keeping kde-qt up to date with Qt upstream can be done via gitorious, which 
should make it easier for us.

It fits directly into the Qt Software development team's daily workflow 
meaning that the odds of our patches getting upstreamed increases.

It removes a bit more burden on our svn server and we can probably stop with 
things like the apply-patches stuff. Less overhead and time == good, and 
people won't have to know about apply-patches to make it all work.


Downsides
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It means using git, not something everyone is comfortable with. This is nearly 
a moot point, however, as that move seems inevitable; while there isn't 
unanimity on the topic (and I doubt that's realistically achievable; it's a 
little like whitespace conventions ;) there as an apparent general consensus 
on the matter.

It means checking out and building Qt again.


Implementation
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Someone will need to make sure that all of our patches are already in kde-qt 
if they aren't already.

Someone will need to update any articles on Techbase that refer to qt-copy and 
provide a step-by-step on how to use kde-qt. This might be a nice exercise in 
starting to put together a "Using KDE's git repositories" information we'll 
need in the future anyways (assuming that the KDE git transition does actually 
occur)

Someone will need to provide a formal announcement so everyone has a heads up 
along with pointers to the above instructions.

Someone will need to actually remove qt-copy from svn after the grace period 
following the announcement (1 week? 2? 3?).


Thoughts? Opinions?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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