Spice Trade

[Bas Wijnen]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:50:00PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Thanks for the link, I hadn't read it.
> 
> I'm for using debhelper and plain diff files (after reading and asking some
> people, a versioning system seems to work better without using dpatch or
> similar).

Same here.  If I would need to have many unrelated changes, then it could be
useful to give them all their own name using dpatch.  But usually that is not
the case, and the .diff.gz is very readable, which is nice.

> I'd like to hear pros and cons, because it would be nice to reach a decision
> on this. I'd prefer to handle all the packages in a consistent way, so that we
> all can work in them without having to be using 50 different tools, but if
> somebody thinks this is a bad idea and each package should be treated
> individually, I'd like to know the reasons too.

I very much prefer to have a unified method, whatever it is.

> I'd like to make some http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development/Guidelines or
> something like that with some guidelines on how we should manage our projects,
> and this should be one of the 1st decisions to make.

Good idea.

> Another different point is, in case we decide going for the uniform way, what
> to do about orphaned or programs already packaged that we decide to take care
> of.

At first we may use them as they are, but I think it would in general be a
good idea to change them into our standard format (whatever that turns out to
be).  When someone new comes around and wants to help, I think that
"historical reasons" should not play a part in how hard it is to work on a
package.  This assumes that the unified method makes things easier. :-)

> About svn, I don't have much experience with managing svn servers, just using
> them. I'd prefer to delegate all the svn stuff on someone, if possible. Nobody
> has said anything about Eddy Petrisor's suggestion of how to handle svn
> repository, so I guess most of you agree with it.

I don't have much experience with such large repositories, so I'm completely
trusting the judgement of those who do.

Thanks,
Bas

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