[Kde-scm-interest] Re: kdegraphics libs migration

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>> The same question applies to SVN, why should one want to download gwenview
>> code to code in libksane? The answer was because we were supposed to help
>> eachother and more people downloading and compiling your code meant more
>> people possibly being ready to help. But people helping eachother is an old
>> fashioned way of thinking amonsgt KDE younglings it seems.
>
> With SVN, you could check out only parts of a repository. I have never checked
> out full kdegraphics for development.
> With git, the entity "repository" should be decoupled from the "release
> tarball" or "KDE submodule". I was told so by sysadmins when requesting the
> digikam repo - there is supposed to be a bundling mechanism on
> projects.kde.org, like having a number of git repos making up the whole of
> kdegraphics.
> For digikam, we plan to have a compilation repository with some magic to pull
> in our 7 repositories (no, not git submodules. The projects.kde solution? dont
> know), three of which being discussed here.

The KDE Projects solution relies on the XML output of projects.kde.org
(which is being worked on, and discussed with the eventual users of
that data) being processed by a script on the developers machine. This
script will in turn use the information given by the XML file to clone
the needed repositories in the appropriate places. This script will
likely be part of kdesrc-build or build-tool.

With regards to moving a repo in Redmine's virtual layout, this is
extremely easy to do.

>
> See the repository layout as a technical detail.
> There can be technical factor vetoeing a split. It's discussed elsewhere.
> There is no such technical bond between the applications in kdegraphics.
> Splitting a KDE module in separate repos does not mean to split the KDE
> module. It's technical, not social.
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Regards,
Ben