Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Thanks Paul!
I'll have a look at this. Just a quick note to say that, for versions of SVN 1.5 and above, working with branches became increasingly easy, with the possibility to merge without knowing the whole previous merge history, cherry picking and such.
But further reading will probably help me.

Cheers,

David

Paul Menzel a écrit :

Dear list,


Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 11:37 +0200 schrieb David Verdin:
  

Flack Maguire a écrit :
    

I was just curious if there had been any talk on the core team of
moving over to one of the distributed version control systems (DVCS)
like Git, Bazaar, or Mercurial. 

      

Not yet. Actually, we are pretty happy with subversion so far. We know
these new systems are emerging now but didn't have the time to
investigate what would be the benefits of migrating to them.
Some readings ahead, I guess. Do you use them yourself or do you have
any pointers that could help us understanding these tools?
    

I am preferring Git, so you could take a look at [1] and [2]. In my
opinion branches are far easier to work with in Git.

  

Married up to these are code hosting services such as Launchpad and
GitHub.  But, I think your team has more than covered the issues
such as a wiki, bug tracking, etc. so I would imagine they would not
be a substantial value add. 

      

Actually, the CRU (the french organization which Serge, Olivier and I
are working for) is operating a development forge, sourcesup
(http://sourcesup.cru.fr/) dedicated to public developments done by
French universities. It provides a set of tools for each project :
tracker, subversion repository, mailing lists, wiki and so on. We use
them for Sympa.
    

Do you have contact to the SourceSup developers. I think, if they offer
you a DVCS system, you could easily migrate and adapt to it. There are a
whole bunch of easy tutorial on the WWW. For Git take a look at [3].

  

Still, the DVCS tools themselves are growing in popularity for the
flexibility they provide to global efforts and can be used
completely outside of the hosting services.
      

Indeed! And if a tool is really useful, we will always find a way to
adpat it to our framework. ;-) 
    

 
Do let me openly acknowledge that it is extremely easy for any of us
to come up with ideas like this when it is not us implementing the
idea.  And, I will be the first to say that my particular group has
gained far more from Sympa than we have given at this date which is
something we hope & plan to change as we go farther with Sympa.
      

Ideas are important. You never implement anything if you don't have
any idea... So feel free to keep on leaving suggestions through the
Sympa mailing lists. We are always interested by new ideas, even if we
-sadly - don't always have the time to implement them.
But it /you/ have the time to do so, you are even more welcome! ;)
    

As written above, I hope SourceSup will offer this service soon.


Bests,

Paul


[1] http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871/why-is-git-better-than-subversion
[3] http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
  

-- 
David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités