From kde-release-team Mon May 07 01:10:42 2012 From: Albert Astals Cid Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 01:10:42 +0000 To: kde-release-team Subject: Re: kdemultimedia move to git aborted for now Message-Id: <16299542.RVhT4NLJYD () xps> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-release-team&m=133635324504119 El Dissabte, 5 de maig de 2012, a les 00:34:12, Nicol=E1s Alvarez va escriu= re: > I'm glad to announce that the kdemultimedia git repositories have now > been re-converted. In addition, I rebased the JuK and Dragon MPRIS > work that was done in scratch repos into the newly-converted > repositories. Good stuff :-) Some questions: * Can i remove the "old" .pot file created by the big svn checkout for = .desktop file translation and go the split repo ways for both trunk and 4.8 = branches * Can we remove the code from svn? Cheers, Albert > = > There are still some minor problems with early (read: ancient) history > of KMix, but fixing that would have delayed the migration too much. I > may fix it in the future, which will need a reconversion of kmix > alone, but don't hold your breath. > = > I *haven't* tested if the repos can be compiled, and I encourage you > to do test-builds for all ten repositories, and for both master and > KDE/4.8 branches (I heard the 4.8 branches hadn't got the > build-standalone commits backported). > = > If you had any changes done locally that you couldn't push due to the > repository block, I'll be glad to help with the rebasing in the > mailing list. But if you don't have any local unpushed work, I highly > recommend that you just delete your local repository and clone it > fresh. > = > Happy hacking! > = > > unfortunately sysadmin woke up today to find that the git conversion > > of the kdemultimedia repositories that was announced yesterday is of > > untenable quality: There is missing history (both in converted branches > > as well as entire missing branches), files are missing from repo- > > sitories and the buildsystem fixes to allow for standalone building > > were not applied consistently across branches, along with potentially > > other problems. > > = > > Due to the brief time window since the migration was announced and > > the relatively few commits that went into them since, we believe > > there is still an opportunity now to abort things and fix up the > > repositories, rather than allow development to happen on top > > of broken repositories and incomplete history. > > = > > As a result all of the kdemultimedia repositories have been locked > > for write access for now. > > = > > Note that this does not mean that development is back in SVN again. > > That is a decision that will have to be made by the kdemultimedia > > maintainers and coordinated with KDE i18n, and will likely depend on > > the time needed to redo the git conversion. > > = > > To the kdemultuimedia maintainers / those in charge of doing the kdemm > > conversion: Please get in touch with our svn2git expert Nicol=E1s Alvar= ez > > (PovAddict) for details on what needs to be fixed in your conversion > > rules and then figure out a plan for redoing the conversion, as well > > as what steps to take to address the currently-halted kdemultimedia > > development. > > = > > To the kdemultimedia developers: Those of you who have already > > committed to the git repositories may need to see to that your work > > ends up in whatever will be set up to replace them, be that a move > > back to SVN or fixed git repositories, in case that the conversion > > crew is not able to recover them. I trust they will keep you infor- > > med on this front, but stay alert. > > = > > -- > > Best regards, > > Eike Hein > = > _______________________________________________ > release-team mailing list > release-team@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team