[Kde-scm-interest] Project release tags on Gitorious

[Eike Hein]

On 11/30/2009 01:06 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> you increase the barrier for "involuntary early adopters". today i do
> "svn up extragear" and get the newest thing with all the rest. when more
> projects start to break out before we have a working submodule
> architecture to "keep everything together", it will start being a real
> pita at some point. effectively, you lose visibility as part of kde.

In my experience, the vast majority of people who use Konver-
sation from the SCM have a checkout of the individual sub-di-
rectory. In fact, we regularly get comments along the lines
of "wow, cool that I don't have to co -n the module super-
structure first" on IRC. Likewise, distributions that offer
live packages that fetch Konversation's sources from the SCM,
like Gentoo, do this on a per-app basis, and are prepared
to handle git repositories already.

Nonetheless, your point that we'd inconvenience people who
currently get their Konversation by way of a single check-
out of the entirety of Extragear is a salient one and some-
thing to think about. I guess it's a whole other debate how
module-y Extragear really is in practice. Do people really
think in terms of "I'll get myself the extragear-network
set installed now", or is it just a way to logically orga-
nize the folder structure in SVN, an issue that goes away
with git?


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Best regards,
Eike Hein