[Kde-scm-interest] Alternate Git options

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed May 12 16:10:44 CEST 2010


Em Quarta-feira 12 Maio 2010, às 15:34:23, Ian Monroe escreveu:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Esben Mose Hansen <kde at mosehansen.dk> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:29:47 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> >> This all said, we discussed a few alternatives in #kde-git and I was
> > 
> >> asked to put them on this list for discussion:
> > I know this is probably a stupid question, but since I can't see the
> > answer, perhaps other can't either. As far as I can see, we need
> > 
> > 1. Actual git repositories
> > 2. User access controls
> > 3. Merge requests/reviewboard
> > 4. A bug tracking system
> > 
> > How about the really simple solution of git + ssh + unix groups, and
> > patching reviewboard to support git, while keeping bugzilla as is? While
> > nowhere near as fancy, it seems a robust solution with minimal impact
> > and maintenance, where the only hard part would be the reviewboard
> > patching. There, a simple solution could be a social control, where
> > non-trivial patches are not pushed until reviewboarded, but are
> > otherwise pushed in the normal git-push fashion? If we wanted to be
> > fancy, we could have a sign-off SHA or URI in the commit message, which
> > could even be required.
> 
> On top of git + ssh + unix group you need some administrative tools to
> handle user creation and management of hundreds of users. Thats what
> Gitolite does.

We also need repositories connected to wikis. I don't like that the playground 
today is a mess of stuff no one knows about.

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