[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Moving away from CVS? (Was: Blender 2.45 backport for etch)

[Florian Ernst]

Hello all,

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:06:48AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> On 21/10/2007, Florian Ernst wrote:
> > I concur that uploading an up-to-date blender to backports as reasoned
> > below by Cyril is a fine idea.
> 
> I hope you're doing fine since it's been a while since I last heard from
> you (and got no answer to my private mail either). If you're busy/afk or

Hum, sorry, I seem not to have received your private mail (can't find it
in my logs either). But yes, generally I'm busy as I have recently
changed jobs and moved to another city. Yet still I try to attend to my
"businesses".

> whatever, I could proceed by asking someone else to upload the package
> to backports.org.

As for backports.org, my position was to wait for an ack from its
maintainers once I'm allowed to upload. So far I haven't received any,
and it was on my to-do list to ask / check for what's up. However, as
I'm now writing this mail the next chance for me to actually do this
will be on Saturday ... ;)

> BTW, I'm really tired of CVS, so I run a git-cvsimport and start hacking
> in my blender git repository, available on alioth on [1]. Since I've
> been the only one to commit lately, I'd tempted to move the habits to
> mine (using pysupport, remember the pycentral-related bug waves last
> time?; quilt; git). I don't want to impose it to you anyway if you don't
> feel like it and/or want to keep things the way they were until now. I
> can imagine being able to deal with pushing this or that diff back to
> CVS from time to time, but that looks very suboptimal to me.
> 
> Waiting for you to speak up. ;-)

The way I see it is, basically you have been the main (I was tempted to
say 'only') maintainer of blender for quite some time. As such, I'd say
it's only resonable to make your work as comfortable as possible.

As for me, I felt I really needed to learn git for a while, so I'm eager
to start. :)

> In case you're OK with the idea, since pkg-blender is only maintaining a
> single package, I'd be tempted not to ask for the creation of a
> pkg-blender.git directory on git.debian.org, but simply putting it
> inside the collab-maint directory.  Any DD can commit there, as well as
> people added to this group (like I have been some months ago).
> 
>  1. http://git.debian.org/?p=users/kibi-guest/blender.git;a=summary
> [...]

Fine with me.

> If you need a crash course, I can provide you with several links, or
> even summarize basic worflow (à la CVS) in a short mail.

Yeah, that'd be great, thanks!

> Also, I've been doing some cleanup, especially WRT to FHS-compliance
> lately. I've also added a mechanism to allow other packages (like my
> sunflow package) to ship blender scripts, automatically visible from
> within blender. (Using /usr/share/blender/scripts.d/$package.)
> 
> To check the whole diff between 2.45-1 and the current “trunk”-like:
> $ git://git.debian.org/git/users/kibi-guest/blender.git blender.git
> $ cd blender.git
> $ git-log 2.45-1..
> $ git-diff 2.45-1..
> 
> 
> Any comment, remark, and the like are very welcome.

Hehe, I'll hold back any further remarks (if indeed I'll actually have
any) for the weekend. So far it sounds pretty good. :)

However, I'm also waiting for the other contributors to speak up about
any of these changes, but I'm afraid there aren't that many anymore ...

Cheers,
Flo
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