Akonadi, Attica and Soprano moved to git.kde.org

[Tom Albers]

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> On Tuesday 26 October 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 26.10.10 21:26:24, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 26 October 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > On 26.10.10 20:55:51, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > > There's probably also somewhere a HOWTO hot to get the stuff
> > > > > from
> > > > > there, how to commit, push, etc ?
> > > > > Can you please post the link ?
> > > >
> > > > This has been explained quite a bit on planetkde by the
> > > > sysadmins,
> > >
> > > were these blogs the official announcement ?
> >
> > They were official in terms of where the setup process for the new
> > infrastructure stands.
> >
> > > I haven't seen any on k-c-d, maybe I missed it.
> >
> > Well, the kde core modules are not moving yet, so why would anything
> > be
> > announced here at this point?
> >
> > > What a search on techbase brings as first results doesn't look too
> > > useful:
> > > http://techbase.kde.org/Special:Search?search=git&fulltext=Search
> >
> > The first 3 results are useful, additionally the amarok-related and
> > the
> > kdeongit page.
> 
> No, they are not.
> First hit (Development/Tutorials/Git):
> "Although KDE is currently using SVN, we're working on moving to git."
> Doesn't sound like something up-to-date I feel like relying on.
> The "Getting started" section lists more links to other articles.
> 
> Second hit (Development/Tutorials/Git/BestPractices):
> Well, it's basically empty.
> 
> Third hit (Development/Tutorials/Git/Intermediate):
> Hmm, basically empty too.
> 
> 4th hit (Getting_Started/Sources/Amarok_Git_Tutorial):
> Talks about amarok. I'm currently not interested in amarok in this
> regard.
> Does this apply to the rest of KDE or kdesupport ?
> 
> 
> > > We have hundreds of developers, IMO we need a simple step-by-step
> > > howto.
> >
> > But most of those don't build kdesupport stuff themselves (or even
> > kdelibs). Also this is not really of concern to kde-core-devel,
> > those
> > projects in kdesupport don't belong to kde's core by definition.
> > They're
> > merely close dependencies.
> 
> Ok, as long as there is no howto count me out of caring about keeping
> kdesupport building.
> 
> This is what Brad from Kitware has written when they migrated cmake
> and their
> other projects from cvs or svn to git:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Git
> http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/Git
> 
> If I need to check something for how to deal with git for cmake, I can
> go
> there and look.
> Still there were quite a few questions on the cmake-devel list (not
> only, but
> also from me) how to do something with git and how to handle issues
> which
> arise. And this with much less developers than KDE has and apparently
> much
> better documentation than we have.
> 
> I'm afraid we need similar or several of our developers will have
> problems.
> 
> Alex

Maybe this will help for some questions:
http://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitFAQ

Best,
-- 
Tom Albers
KDE Sysadmin