[Sugar-devel] Adding committers on gitorious (was: Re: [PATCH] Remove nbsp chars from the html string before parsing)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 01:47, Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco at marcopg.org> wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2010, at 00:20, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:06:03AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> Another option is having some script that adds committers to all sugar
>>> core modules in one go, that would be similar to what GNOME does.
>>
>> There are too many core modules, in my opinion (and Michael Stone's).  I
>> see no good reason why there isn't just one git repository for the
>> whole of Sugar.
>
> Yeah, I think we need to look into merging core in a single repository.

At the end it's basically the same problem we find again and again: we
spend days-person discussing some big changes, eventually may reach an
agreement (or not), then nobody finds time to actually do the work.

It happened with the code review process and I see very well it
happening here because it would require coordination with packagers,
updating lots of wiki pages, etc.

> Not even so much because of the maintenance burden, but because we really need to get to the point where building Sugar on a recent distribution is just cloning one git repository and running "./configure; make install".

I'm afraid this won't be always possible no matter what we do because
distros such as Fedora are willing to drop stuff that doesn't conform
to GNOME 3, while Debian behaves more conservatively.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-August/006407.html

Regards,

Tomeu

> Marco
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