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[Baptiste Daroussin]

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 at 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 at freebsd.org
> [7] http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-office
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No not at all except that I dislike the interface :)

btw you should be on honeymoon ? :)

Bapt