On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:01, Harald Sitter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM, ian.monroe@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:35, Harald Sitter wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, ian.monroe@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:02, Harald Sitter wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ian.monroe@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> What about the idea of combining all the non-applications >>>>>> subdirectories into a single project? Would make the dep tree easier, >>>>>> and they are all really small anyways. >>>>> >>>>> That would mean that we need to move unmaintained stuff out of the >>>>> repos, thus have to do hardcore fiddeling with the history. >>>> >>>> Why does it mean that? >>> >>> Because shipping broken and unmaintained software results in bad >>> public perception of KDE and particularly our multimedia apps. >> >> Well I mean, can't we just delete (git rm) the unmaintained software >> from my hypothetical combined non-app repo. Or not convert it in the >> first place. I don't see how having separate repos changes anything in >> regards to this issue. > > That does not safe us from software dying later or getting introduced > later and then die after that. At any rate having later disappearing > software in the history is nothing but ewww. If every application/lib > is in their own repo we can just demote/promote states without every > touching git, elevating the whole process from technical work to > management work (of sorts). You would be correct if we were talking about massive histories, but we're not. This is small stuff. >>>>> So we >>>>> might as well split proper. It does not make much difference whether >>>>> we expand to 5 or 13 repos really. >>>> >>>> Well people complain a lot, see the latest thread on release-team. I >>>> think making the dep tree very simple is a good thing and not hard to >>>> do. >>> >>> It was pointed out by fedora and kubuntu packagers that it makes much >>> sense to have kdemm split. >> >> Yea I don't really understand whats going on with that thread. > > No idea, svuorela also thinks splitting is a good thing in general, so > that adds Debian to the supporters :P Tell him to join in! And you too! So far its a big "you upstreamers don't understand the pain of being downstream, spec files are hard lets go shopping" etc etc. Ian _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia