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

[Chani]

On November 29, 2009 16:15:23 Eike Hein wrote:
> 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?
> 

good question.
I'd be interested to see some actual numbers on how many people check out 
whole modules vs. individual projects. me, I have a mixture.. a bunch of kde-
foo modules, extragear-network (although I think I only grabbed that to get 
kopete), and a couple of plugins folders.
 ...huh, I guess I do tend to check out whole modules then. I don't mind the 
disk space, and it's nice to get 'surprise' programs installed :) although 
these days I never really see a list of what I've got. kickoff and krunner are 
good for when you're trying to reach a program you need for a certain task; 
they're not optimized for just idly browsing through available applications.

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