[Kde-scm-interest] Splitting kdebindings when moving to git

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Richard Dale
<richard.dale at telefonica.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 19, 2010 05:31:35 pm Thomas Zander wrote:
>> On Thursday 19. August 2010 18.00.32 Matt Williams wrote:
>> > I would say that in this situation, they're a good candidate for
>> > splitting out into a separate module called kdebindings-support or
>> > even moving into kdesupport itself. This is, however, completely
>> > orthogonal to the Git migration.
>>
>> Yes, this looks like it is.
>>
>> Richard and Arno;  would it make sense to do the above strategy in svn
>> right now?
>> Doing it at the same time as a git migration is possible; but if some code
>> or build setup has to be changed to make stuff compile again that sounds
>> like a recipy for pain to do at the same time.
>>
>> If you don't want some parts of kdebindings to be part of the big KDE
>> software collection, then the above strategy makes total sense to me.
> I want people to be able to do peer to peer development using the capabilities
> of git. I want there to be a one-to-one correspondence between a project which
> people want to maintain outside of the kde git repo, and the kde git repo
> version. The QtRuby project in github needs to be a clone of the kde git repo
> project.
>
>  I'm not exactly sure what this kdebindings-support module would be. If it is
> an arbitrary jumble of qt-only things and tool things, then it won't fly in the
> git distributed peer-to-peer repo world that we want have.

Peer-to-peer development doesn't mean you have more then one
'authoritative' clone. There can only be one mainline. Even Linux has
the Linus-blessed main git repo.

That QtRuby project in github is basically a feature branch created by
someone who was a bit confused by CMake. I don't think its a good
reason to split up kdebindings.

...but the idea of kdebindings-support was for syncing up release
cycles better. Kdebindings keeping to the kdelibs release cycle has
always been a challenge. I wonder if it the bindings shouldn't be
split up and put into extragear or something. I dunno.

(still think this is mostly a kdebindings thread thats only
tangentially related to git)

Ian