[Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> so, to recap from last two immense threads (not counting KOffice one
> now), seems like we're stuck between two situations:
>
> - Not splitting the main modules. Would work great but will fail once
> we try to move stuff between the modules (I still think that this is
> not a huge usecase but.. okay)
> - Splitting the main modules. Then we're doomed in a mess of
> dependencies, repos, metarepos, and so on. Distros like slackware
> won't forgive us, KDE developer groups (e.g. kdeedu) will hate us, and
> personally I'm not a big fan of it either.
>
> This looks like a dead end to me.
>
> So, what are we doing now? Giving up on git and telling people to just
> screw up and use git-svn? Think more?

> Hire someone to make a better git? Or what?
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Personally, that's the one I like the most.

Not a "new git" but to improve git in regards to submodules,
externals, etc, working hand-to-hand with upstream.

KDE is not the first project which has faced these problems and so far
noone has been able to provide a good solution. If we can afford
paying someone to fix these issues for us, and the solution will the
accepted upstream, that's the way to go.

Of course, we would first need to decide on what solution we want,
something which is not clear at the moment IMHO.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)