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

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 17. February 2010 13.45.28 Michael Jansen wrote:
> You want to move the core of kde. Make a real plan. Describe how modules
>  will be split.

done that some time ago;
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/svn2git/kde-ruleset.git
$ grep 'create repository' kde-ruleset/*

(no not providing the output, everyone here should have a checkout of 
that repo!)

>  Analyse how  that affects the workflow of all devs, 

Detailed before, it should not change at all (executive decision). Just give 
more options to those that want to use them.

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>  Predict and explain how big
>  repositories will get using git, 

Much smaller than svn. KOffice including its 12 year history (80 branches) is 
350Mb which you get if you indeed do a full checkout.
A download of svn of the current tree (so without history) is some 200Mb.
Sorry, no time to delve into the mail archives to find the previously published 
numbers.

>  Explain how that affects and applies to
>  kdesupport-oxygen. 

If someone wrote the ruleset we could check the exact information. I can't do 
anything but speculate at this time.

>  Show us how it affects the work of the release- team.

The Amarok people are in contact with the release team AFAIK. There are 
example scripts in use from them already. Its just different.

>  Get input from the distributions.

Asked several distro people (of various distros ;) on IRC and they were all 
perfectly fine with the transfer and preferred not splitting the repos.

-- 
Thomas Zander