[Kde-pim] [Kde-scm-interest] [Kde-games-devel] kdegames' move to Git

Torgny Nyblom kde at nyblom.org
Mon Jun 28 19:05:49 BST 2010


On Sunday 27 June 2010 19.22.34 Tom Albers wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:48:32 -0700, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
> > every single time the matter was brought up, the end was the same. so
> > anyone
> > who wants to comment further on this thread: please, *please* go read
> 
> the
> 
> > archives first.
> 
> Ok, but some things have changed since we moved from gitorious to our own
> solution, which might be relevant.
> 
> We now have redmine. Redmine is used to create the structure we need, as
> in extragear, playground, kdereview and the main modules. This means that
> moving an application from playground to kdereview to extragear is as easy
> as reparanting the project page to the right parent (kdereview and after
> that extragear).
> 
> But this gets complicated when all apps are into one big module based
> repository. Moving KMail from kdepim to extragear would not be possible
> while preserving the history. This is imho important to know and consider.
> 
> Also note that for the future (when and if are very big unknowns, but I
> think that thinking ahead might be good) we are starting to use the bugs
> feature of redmine, closing bugs with commits is only possible within a
> project. So if the repository is added to the 'kdepim' project and the bug
> is assigned to the 'kmail' project - while kmail is a child of kdepim in
> the hyrarchy - it is not possible to close the bug within a commit. We
> would obviously change redmine for that, without much chance of upstreaming
> that.
> 
> Note, i don't want to bikeshed or whatever, I just want this to be known.
> Especially the first point is important I think, using 1 repository per app
> would make life a lot easier in this particular area.
> 
> Best,

I'll do a test with kdepim-runtime to see how hard it is to convert the rules 
into split ones.

For full context see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-scm-
interest&m=127758195012604&w=2

/Regards
Torgny
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