2008/6/6 Mark Wielaard <mark@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Andrew, > > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 03:37 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> I just noticed this announcement when submitting the news announcement >> for 0.97.2. > > Thanks for doing 0.97.2. I see Michael Koch already pushed it into > Debian! > Wow, that was quick! I guess because he was already testing pre-releases earlier this week. >> What do people think to the idea of switching? Maybe post 0.98? > > I wouldn't object (although I don't really have trouble with CVS at this > point with classpath). So if enough developers think it is a positive > switch lets do it. We would be the second project on savannah though, so > expect some first adopter issues. > > The only thing we have to really look out for is doing a good > conversion, some experimentation with hg convert and/or tailor might be > necessary. > > Also a better understanding (best practices for) release branches would > be nice. I found the in-tree branching of mercurial somewhat confusing > at times, so it would be good to make sure we have clear guidelines for > those who want to do (release) branches on the tree would be nice. > A lot of thought does need to go into it, which is why if we do switch, I wouldn't want to do so before 0.98 is out, as it could delay it even further. I did try to hg convert it once and didn't get very far. A tree as old as Classpath will be non-trivial. As to release branches, I actually prefer a completely separate tree (like icedtea/icedtea6) rather than in-tree branches, but I'm not sure Savannah would support this. > Cheers, > > Mark > > Cheers, -- Andrew :-) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
