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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Andrew Stitt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:56:42PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
>> On Apr 01, George Sherwood [pilot AT beernabeer.com] wrote:
>>> <rant> I certainly am not smart enough to know what scm should
>>> replace p4, but it is unacceptable that every other weekend p4 seems to
>>> go down until Monday.
>>>   Weekends should be a time for our volunteers to work on SMGL and
>>> now we can't do so.
>>>   We often talk and talk about something and never implement.  But this
>>> is something we need to make the "best" choice and then implement.
>>> </rant>
>> As of last night there is a bzr install on fawkes, and I'm working with the
>> sorcery and cauldron teams so far to get their stuff set up in it.  This
>> isn't necessarily a real switch yet but it will hopefully get to real work
>> being done in it and we'll see how it goes.
>>
> 
> The sorcery team is now using bzr as their primary scm. We'll try it
> for a month and decide if we should keep it. I've actually committed
> a bugfix to it. I hear the cauldron team has been committing fixes to
> their bzr repo too.

That rumor is true :) The new LVM stuff for the installer is in the bzr
repo. I'm going to set up the devel isofactory to pull from bzr and get
us a nightly devel iso/xdelta thing going.

> 
> For those of you using sorcery directly out of p4, stop, we wont be
> pushing changes back to p4 on a regular basis. Anyone can check out
> sorcery from bzr:
> bzr branch http://scm.sourcemage.org/smgl/sorcery/devel sorcery-devel
> update with bzr pull


Same applies to people hacking on the cauldron code, although the
command is:
bzr branch http://scm.sourcemage.org/smgl/cauldron/devel cauldron-devel
Still update with bzr pull

> 
> You can also commit changes if you want, and then publish them over
> http. If I like them I can pull them into the main repository.

Same type of deal for cauldron :)

> 
> I'll probably be setting up a daemon script for sending change-reviews
> to sm-commits ML. Unless someone beats me to it.

I'm too lazy to do this, so I'll just steal Andrew's when/if it's done :)

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David Kowis

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