[sugar] [IAEP] gitorious and OLPC

[Bernie Innocenti]

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Seth Woodworth wrote:
> Are we coordinating with the people from gitorious?  AFAIK there is 
> another project that Henry just gave the +1 to and offered a laptop.org 
> <http://laptop.org> subdomain.
> 
> Is this a separate project?

A plan was in the air, but we need to coordinate better on the details 
with Henry and everyone else involved.  This thread is where the 
discussion got started.  I was also planning to be at 1CC tomorrow in the 
afternoon, so if we have some time we can talk it through in person.

It makes more sense for Sugar activities and components to live on 
src.sugarlabs.org, while the OLPC platform-specific repositories such as 
olpc-utils could probably just remain where they are on dev.laptop.org.
I guess they don't require a lot of sysadmin time to maintain anyway.


> I don't really have the time to get involved in either.  But I really 
> want to make sure that no one is duplicating a project when they could 
> be working together.

We want to avoid duplication of effort, but not necessarily of git trees. 
  If I were a vendor, I'd probably want to maintain local copies of 
repositories where the release-time customizations would go with faster 
turnaround.

This is what all the Linux distros end up handing large upstream projects, 
although some of them historically used for this purpose a set of patches 
as opposed to a full blown vendor tree.  Git is changing the equation in 
favor of vendor branches, as it makes it damn simple to rebase local 
changesets over new releases and migrate them upstream as they pass 
through maintainer's review.

This is how my DSCM-oriented mind sees it.  If end up being more inclined 
towards a time-tested, traditional centralized workflow, we might keep 
using vendor/release branches as many projects still do (gcc, for instance).

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