[Adium-devl] Version control

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 07, 2007, at 21:25:08, Colin Barrett wrote:
> At the GSoC summit, David, Peter and myself met up with rlaager,  
> grim (Gary Kramlich), and KingAnt (Mark Doliner).

I must object to this blatant violation of grammar. The correct  
statement is:

	At the GSoC summit, Catfish_Man, Mac-arena, and myself met up with  
rlaager, grim (Gary Kramlich), and KingAnt (Mark Doliner).

;)

Also, is there anyone here who knows rlaager and not KingAnt?

> 1) We should move Adium to /some/ sort of distributed version  
> control system.

Hopefully, one that supports a commits mailing list, as well as  
integrates nicely with Trac.

I suppose the Pidgin developers can offer us assistance at least with  
the latter point.

> DVCS is the way of the future. It's not just the better merging  
> that it gets you. developers *and* new contributors get access to  
> the same tools. It makes it much easier for new contributors to get  
> involved, since we can easily pull in their changes, and giving  
> them "commit access" is just as easy as giving them access to push  
> to the branch we release off of.

That's definitely a win.

> 2) We should move Adium to mtn.
>
> Moving Adium to monotone is, at this point, the path of least  
> resistance. The people that we collaborate the most with, pidgin,  
> are using monotone.
>
> Counter: They are not dead set on it, and the land of DVCS is  
> changing rapidly (bzr is getting faster, git is getting easier to  
> use, etc). Maybe now another VCS makes sense for both them and for  
> us. Rlaager said that they might be willing to switch if it'll make  
> life easier for them and us.

Let's not complicate the proposition. Let's move to Monotone. It  
looks like a straightforward enough interface, and as you say,  
they're already using it. We can look at alternatives once we've all  
developed our own DVCS-fu using Monotone.

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