[Pkg-samba-maint] Early plans for a merged samba3/samba4 package

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Christian,

It was great to see you, Luk and Ivo in Göttingen last week.

Am 11/05/12 12:30, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
> Here's a first summary of discussions we had, here at "Barcamp" after
> SambaXP 2012 (we==Ivo de Decker, Luk Claes, Jelmer Vernooij and me).
>
> As Samba upstream is now merging samba 3 and samba 4, we need to merge
> our own packages.
> [...]
> Waiting for your comments and additions. I hope I summarize things
> well.
That summarizes it well. Thanks for writing it up.

> Next action (aha) will be to decide *where* to maintain all this. I'm
> not sure we can continue to survive with subversion but is anyone
> ready to try playing with svn->git?
> (I'd personnally favor git, which I tend to be more comfortable with
> as I have to use it more for other stuf....and also because upstream
> uses git anyway and, yes, I know we did setup a bzr repository..:-))
>
> Given that our current Subversion is kinda clumsy (/me being the
> culprit for most of the clumsyness, I'm afraid), do you guys thinks it
> is really possible to convert it as it has so many tags and branches
> (and subprojects, some of which being quite dead).

I personally would prefer either bzr or git. Having to work on the package in svn seems like going a step backwards to me. :-)

Cheers,

Jelmer