Re: Gnus VCS issues

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:40 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@quimbies.gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Reiner, Lars, are you for or against switching Gnus to Bazaar?
>> 
>> Note pretty much everyone, me included, is OK with Git instead of
>> Bazaar.  It can be synchronized with Bazaar and interfaces like Magit
>> make it really nice.  So really I'm pushing for a decent DVCS, although
>> I'd prefer Bazaar or Git over the others.

LMI> I'm pretty much agnostic -- I have little experience with either bzr or
LMI> git.  

My experience with Git has been more positive.  A common complaint on
the emacs-devel list is memory issues, where Bazaar baloons to hundreds
of MB, and it uses a *crazy* amount of bandwidth, also hundreds of MB
for a single pull if the commit log requires it.  There's also much more
Git knowledge and nice wrappers out there, so I say let's use Git, at
least for now.  Since there's an existing Git mirror mentioned in this
thread we can simply make a clone of it after review for consistency.

If you haven't used Git, I recommend the Magit Emacs package.  The docs
are great and it simplifies the common tasks (the
update-or-rebase->hack->stage->commit-or-ammend cycle).

>> If yes to Bazaar, are you in favor of hosting with Savannah or keeping
>> it on gnus.org?  I assume with Git it would be hosted on gnus.org.

LMI> I could give somebody (Reiner, for instance?) access to quimby.gnus.org
LMI> to install the server, if that's required.

Either Reiner or I can do it.  We should also review the list of
comitters and change their passwords as a security measure if we're
changing the server anyhow.  You or one of us can make the CVS server
read-only and keep it around, updating from Git.

The Emacs developers need to be aware of this change too so they can
pull deltas into the Emacs tree and push bugfixes back into the Gnus
tree.  I don't expect that change to be a problem.

Reiner, are you all right with this plan?  Would you like to work on
quimby or should I?

Thanks
Ted