[Kde-games-devel] GIT Conversion status

[Ian Wadham]

@Stefan.  Can we resolve the questions below quite soon?
         Both QML students are comfortable with GIT.

On 26/04/2012, at 1:04 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:
> On 26/04/2012, at 4:30 AM, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Viranch Mehta <viranch.mehta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am a GSoC student, going to be working on KBreakout. I would like to
>>> know its Git conversion status. I have extensively worked with Git and I
>>> would prefer doing this project also with Git, since I am not too familiar
>>> with
>>> SVN. The fact that I have to be connected to the internet for making each
>>> SVN commit makes me kind of uncomfortable.
>> 
>> I propose the following workflow:
>> 
>> 1. We import the source tree of KBreakout and KDiamond into two
>> scratch repos, without any history. The initial commit will also patch
>> the build system as required.
>> 2. The students then push their work to these repos.
>> 3. When kdegames is converted to Git, the students can easily move to
>> the new origin repositories using a three-point rebase. (I'm familiar
>> with this process and can post a detailed explanation once this
>> becomes relevant.
>> 
>> If this is okay for the students and the mentors, I'll go ahead and
>> create the required repos with the required build system patches.
> 
> Hmmmm … I was proposing, on the "deliverables" thread, that the QML
> students should work in playground/games or the GIT equivalent. Isn't
> that where new contributions usually go?  I would not like to see QML
> code and C++ code intermixed in the release stream until we are ready
> to start releasing QML games.
> 
> Of course, the students might need to modify existing C++ code, but not
> in a way that should affect C++ execution IIUC (e.g. adding Q_PROPERTY).
> So those changes could go forward in trunk and into 4.9 if required, without
> any risk of forking or difficult merges later.
> 
> I should point out, too, that Roney has KBreakout on his list for porting
> to QGraphicsView (I think it already uses KGameRenderer).  Will that
> be a problem?  Should I ask him to pick another game to port?

So. GIT playground or somewhere else?

And should Roney avoid KBreakout and choose another game?
Because Viranch will be QMLizing KBreakout.

Cheers, Ian W.