[Kde-scm-interest] KOffice moving to gitorious

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Fri Feb 12 17:48:01 CET 2010


On Friday 12 February 2010, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> On Friday 12 February 2010 17:33:23 Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > Could someone spell out to me why moving parts like KOffice to git
> > hinders (or  helps) anything? The only argument I've heard is that using
> > 2 tools raises the bat for developers, but since KOffice development is
> > unlikely to need changes to kdelibs, I don't see this is applicable
> > here.
> 
> It does indirectly. As I've said I think this man power could be spent on
> helping whole KDE SC switch to git and after that switching KOffice would
> be a breeze (theoretically).
> 
> Instead we'll have people's initiative spent on moving individual
> components while the core part is kept where it is with no (or little)
> progress happening.

I don't believe in a big-bang approach anymore. I think we'll see more and 
more project "defect" on their own.

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