[Kde-scm-interest] kdegames' move to Git

[Jens-Michael Hoffmann]

Am Sonntag, 27. Juni 2010, 23:22:00 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> On Sunday 27. June 2010 21.45.45 Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > IIRC, "the ones who do the work" wanted monolithic Git repos for some
> > > > reasons and "the ones who wanted split packages" for some other
> > > > reasons did not have the time to do the work. In KDE world, that's a
> > > > decision.
> > > > 
> > > > :)
> > > 
> > > not only that, but after a few rounds of bikeshedding on this matter,
> > > thiago showed up and said that the kdegames guys (and other modules)
> > > had been consulted ages ago and were fine with one repo per module. I
> > > think we consulted them a second time and got the same thing again
> > > too.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > every single time the matter was brought up, the end was the same. so
> > > anyone who wants to comment further on this thread: please, please go
> > > read the archives first.
> > 
> > I did read the mailing list archives and could not see that a decision
> > was made.
> 
> There are several places where this has been made clear, but for sure I
> agree that the amount of mails this topic starts is significant.
> The best place to see a decision is clearly made is here;
> http://gitorious.org/svn2git The sources :-)
> The rulesets are the product of the work done by people that, well follow
> up on the decision. And they are not splitting modules.
> 
> Its a made decision, many many manhours have been going in after that
> decision was made executing it, there is no way to change it now.

I maintain that there was no decision made. Of course you are right when 
stating for some modules rules now exist which don't split the modules.

However I only consider this a default. Every application team should be able 
to decide for themselves if they want a separate repository or not. In case 
they are not fine with the default they have of course to do some work.