Mozart development

[Torsten Anders]

Hi,

On 08.02.2007, at 16:34, Filip Konvička wrote:
>> Would it perhaps be a good idea to move some or even all Mogul 
>> packages over to gforge.info.ucl.ac.be and allow registered 
>> developers to fix things? To avoid any irritation, we may introduce a 
>> distinction between individually maintained Mogul packages (the only 
>> approach so far), and packages maintained by the community. The 
>> author may decide whether she/he permits community maintenance. The 
>> problem remains for packages whose author does not respond. In that 
>> case, we may consider starting a community branch (e.g. ozh2).
> Good idea. With this approach, we might be able to have (almost) 
> everything in the public repository, + we would not be forced to 
> change the way the librarian works. That would mean asking every 
> contributor to send the current source code (incl. makefiles etc.) to 
> some admin, configuring svn for this, creating web space for the 
> packages and redirecting the packages' URLs to gforge. I'm not sure 
> about the build/upload process, though.
>
> I'm also not sure about which contributions we need to have in the 
> svn. Maybe the transition could be demand-driven, which would perhaps 
> mean that just a few contributions need to be migrated. Does anyone 
> have the idea which contributions are "popular" ? :-) The reason why I 
> mention this is that some contribs might be harder to maintain/build 
> than others...

Sure, packages could be moved/branched only when requested, so the 
effort would be kept as low as possible.

BTW: how hard/easy would it be to let the librarian read stuff out of 
svn somehow?

Thanks!

Torsten

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Torsten Anders
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Frankstr. 49 • D-50996 Köln
Tel: +49-221-3980750
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net
http://www.torsten-anders.de


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Torsten Anders
Sonic Arts Research Centre • Queen's University Belfast
Frankstr. 49 • D-50996 Köln
Tel: +49-221-3980750
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net
http://www.torsten-anders.de