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Date:      Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:37:06 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-office@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Developer Repository
Message-ID:  <CADLo83_u-rvkrD3xia6%2BuGD444p2AJhhEK4ZLO03LkaAk3XWLQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <418c8f6ade2247754802d41d8b464e06@etoilebsd.net>
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On 31 Jul 2011 21:10, "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:54:54 +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> On 31 Jul 2011 20:36, "Baptiste Daroussin"  wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>  > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:58:32 +0200, Gabor PALI wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> Hello there,
>>  >>
>>  >> If there is a team there should be a team repository as well :-)
>>  >> Currently we are working in Baptistes github repository [1] but
>>
>> perhaps
>>  >> we may have a common repository with all the ports that we want
>> keep in
>>  >> our focus.
>>  >>
>>  >> It would be beneficial for both users and developers:
>>  >>
>>  >> - "Early adopters" could access the work-in-progress ports easily
>> and
>>  >> play with them.  Anybody could contribute to the project through
>> the
>>  >> standard way of git/hg, i.e. clone/fork the repository, make her
>> own
>>  >> modifications and then send us patches or pull requests.  Places
>> that
>>  >> host such repositories also offer issue tracking and other fancy
>> stuff
>>  >> that may come useful in the long term.
>>  >>
>>  >> - There would be a common place where we could commit draft
>> versions of
>>  >> the ports for review/testing/etc.  Anybody without being a
>> FreeBSD
>>  >> committer would be able to work in the repository.  These ports
>> then can
>>  >> be merged to the ports tree.  It is also a good way to share our
>>  >> "testing resources", i.e. anybody who has a spare box and time to
>> test
>>  >> the maintained ports can do test runs with them.
>>  >>
>>  >> As a bonus, there is a tool called portshaker(8) [2] that may be
>> used
>>  >> for integrating the current state of our work with a snapshot of
>> the
>>  >> Ports Collection.  This method also makes possible to store only
>> the
>>  >> ports we want to develop.
>>  >>
>>  >> Thus I would suggest to place all our ports in such a repository
>> and
>>  >> make it usable via portshaker(8).  A working example of this
>> approach is
>>  >> the FreeBSD Haskell repository at github [3] where I have been
>> working
>>  >> (with 200+ ports).  I have written a very simple script for
>>  >> "Perforce-like" integration [4] that helps to keep versions in the
>>  >> repository in synch with and the ports tree in a mergemaster(8)
>>  >> fashion.  In addition, I use the repository to periodically test
>> all
>>  >> maintained ports together (and against) in a ports tinderbox.
>>  >>
>>  >> Opinions?
>>  >>
>>  >> Do you have any preferred servers/services?  In the first round,
>> I would
>>  >> suggest to use git and github, but feel free to recommend other
>> :-)
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> [1] https://github.com/bapt/libreoffice-ports/ [2]
>>  >> [2] http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/portshaker/ [3]
>>  >> [3] https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell [4]
>>  >> [4] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/haskell/merge-cvs-sdiff.sh [5]
>>  >>
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>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > I think it is a good idea, here is what can be done:
>>  >
>>  > github with git
>>  > bitbucket with hg
>>  > google code with svn, git or hg
>>  > selfhosted with fossil.
>>  >
>>  > What are your favorite choices ?
>>  >
>>
>> Are we anti-SF?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] mailto:bapt@freebsd.org
>> [2] https://github.com/bapt/libreoffice-ports/
>> [3] http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/portshaker/
>> [4] https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell
>> [5] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/haskell/merge-cvs-sdiff.sh
>> [6] mailto:freebsd-office@freebsd.org
>> [7] http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-office
>> [8] mailto:freebsd-office-unsubscribe@freebsd.org
>
>
>
> No not at all except that I dislike the interface :)
>
> btw you should be on honeymoon ? :)
>

You sound like my wife ;)

Ok, forget sourceforge.

Chris



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