Re: DVCS

["John Carr" <john carr unrouted co uk>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zeenix gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>  I remember that at GUADEC, we were seriously thinking about
> migrating to git but the decision was postponed on Mark Shuttleworth's
> request. It's been some months since that and we are still stuck with
> SVN. AFAIK both git and bazaar have very strong supporters in our
> community so the only way I see out of this is:
>
> 1. Get someone (known and trusted) to volunteer to set-up and maintain
> the repository. I think Olav likes bazaar so he would volunteer for
> that?
> 2. Assuming that we get volunteers for both the repository types, we
> simply vote amongst the top 50 contributers (i myself most probably
> don't count :))
>
>  Lets not turn this into yet another bazaar vs. git war cause we
> already had plenty of that and nothing good comes out of that.

I think the vote should be down to the foundation members.

>  The reason i bring this up is:
>
> 1. I don't see any way of using git mirrors (don't know of bazaar) in
> jhbuild setup.

Help wanted:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538507

> 2. I want to move a module from o-hand SVN to gnome SVN while keeping
> the history intact and seems the only way of achieving that is to wait
> on bkor to get to import the svn dump. Don't get me wrong, I am not
> saying bkor is taking very long but I have no way of knowing when
> would he get time to do it.

bkor isnt the only sysadmin, but who are the others and how much do
they do.. the whole sysadmin process is not very transparent.
Shouldn't it be? I would *love* to help out the sysadmins, maybe even
offer them some of my time. Where is it documented on how to be
considered as a sysadmin? Even a junior sysadmin that can just set up
mailing lists and do svn imports... I hang around #sysadmin but there
is only so much i can suggest people try before i have to leave them
to the irc gods....

John