From owner-freebsd-office@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 20:21:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-office@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D5B1065672 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:21:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F342E8FC08 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-iy0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 11so8086242iyb.13 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:21:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=QP0hHzZ1Zsd5NXJv3ek/P9ZtwXPP1ipu5YhvMBUMqBI=; b=c/0hLJd0U60tMG9MgXJ7LgvEPwwt3ee8USC1K0bDgMG3x5O69s2R7gnJXsg3RBLLHR ++VKXYhe4jMWu9Yvb8AckihknREB1eZgY2NZIro0bs7PdP7zm3XQvbkP5YbrcoS7DSUM gwlqGLiIbVLusP+jv7cy2wtJ3raIDtAfU6wvY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.92.84 with SMTP id q20mr2363261ibm.92.1312142094673; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.80.131 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.80.131 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:54:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E349AA8.4010201@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:54:54 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Baptiste Daroussin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-office@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Developer Repository X-BeenThere: freebsd-office@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Office applications on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:21:05 -0000 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 Baptiste's 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] http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/portshaker/ >> [3] https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell >> [4] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/haskell/merge-cvs-sdiff.sh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-office@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-office >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-office-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > 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