[Pkg-electronics-devel] Enabling an Alioth SCM repository for our project

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:28:23PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Gudjon pointed this out that we still have not ever enabled any SCM on the 
> alioth project. I think it's about time we do, as it will make 
> collaborating on some more complex packages a lot easier. (As with most of 
> our team resources, it's use should probably be recommended, but stay 
> optional.)
>  
> I'll go ahead and do the legwork to get everything activated. Before I do, 
> does anyone have a super strong SCM preference? I can live with Subversion, 
> but I think we'd be actually be better served using Bazaar[1].
> 
> Also keep in mind that since we are packaging lots of "unrelated" 
> electronics software, we don't necessarily have to standardize on a single 
> SCM tool, e.g. we can set up two or more(!) kinds of repositories. But that 
> can start to make things confusing.
> 
> Anyway, give me your thoughts and preferences in the next few days, and I'll 
> go ahead and get something (or two) activated.

So far I haven't found an SCM to be necessary for these packages. We
have very few changes to the upstream code (just packaging and minor
fixes) which can easily be migrated just by working with the diffs.

As to which SCM, I only know SVN but if I were going to learn a
distributed tool (which I should) my preference would be git.

However I'm not really sure that using an SCM for most of these packages
isn't unnecessary overhead. Can anyone convince me?

Hamish
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