On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 19:11 +0530, Anand Capur wrote: > > Before you guys descend into a discussion of specific SCMs can you talk > > about what the goals are for what you want to do? Mike touched on them > > but I think that it needs more discussion before you talk about what you > > love/hate about specific tools. > > > > --Chris > I'm sure mike will say more, but here. > * Unix accounts or certificate based authentication > * Access Control Lists of per-package per-branch granularity > o Ideally this means per-directory ACL's > * ACLs will allow view and commit access to select contributors. > o Embargo branches should be on the same server as the > normal branches. This is necessary to allow certain upstream > developers to work in cooperation with Fedora maintainers. > o We need to scale up to hundreds of branches per package in > the long run. > o Some package/branches would be read-only to most users. > o Other package/branches need to be completely hidden from > most users. > * E-mail notification when changes occur. These notifications must > be sent from the server, and it must be not possible for users to > bypass. > * Distributed SCM allows easy sub-collections of the distribution > to be built and tested independently, then the bulk be easily merged > back while minimizing effort. > * Translations for core packages are right now implemented via > cvs.fedora.redhat.com and tied to CVS. More longterm they might also > benefit from a more modern version control system. > > Highly Desirable Abilities: > > * Ability to check out only a portion of the tree in order to work > on only a package, instead of the entire tree. > Unless I totally misread Mike's initial post, this is not about the Packaging SCM but about what SCM we might want for our own projects. In particular, the small projects of a few files each that don't make sense on hosted. Notificationis a high level goal that we would want. But the rest of these goals are more specific to the packaging SCM. -Toshio
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