[Kde-scm-interest] Minutes from Today's KDE -> Git BoF

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 17 July 2009 11:02:15 Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Also, does anyone know who exactly was looking for this "feature"?

From my memory it would serve two groups of people;
* users typically are not committers but follow svn and don't want to switch 
to git. The experience is from the cvs->svn switch that many users took 
another couple of months to actually do a new checkout.

We also noted that we would support this behavior as getting 100% of the users 
of kde-svn to do a git checkout on day 1 is going to cause a lot of worries.

* translators that want to see the original docbook files should be able to 
still use svn for that.
I don't know if this is still accurate since afterwards I learned that there 
are scripts to parse a docbook and get all the individual strings out of that 
into .po files.  So why would a translator need a checkout of koffice/doc then?

* stuff like dirks dashboard would continue working without rewrite.

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Thomas Zander