Cyrus-imapd status update

[Ondřej Surý]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:30, Sven Mueller <sven at incase.de> wrote:
> Christoph Berg schrieb:
>> Re: Ondřej Surý 2010-01-18 <3221680d1001180052n6924732ew4d7b2adf64ecd60f at mail.gmail.com>
>>>> Btw, I'm all in favour of only storing debian/ in svn, that will make
>>>> the mess much easier to handle.
>>> I'm in favor of converting cyrus to git+quilt, that will make the mess
>>> much easier to handle. (at least those are my experiences from
>>> pkg-php...)
>>
>> Actually, I did use quilt for refreshing some patches. Luckily, the
>> debian/patches format is mostly compatible :)
>>
>> +1 from me (on quilt, I don't care about git vs svn).
>
> +1 for quilt
> -1 for git (though I actually don't think I've much to say about that,
> but I never liked git at all)
>
> Actually, as much as I like the idea of DVCSs (especially the ability to
> work while not connected to the network that contains the "master"
> repository, whatever that might be), there is one thing I don't like
> about them: The non-existance of a true master repository, by which I
> mean the enforcement that all changes from any member must go through
> the master to be available to others. I know perfectly well that this
> can still be done by defining (and following it willfully) a policy for
> this.

That can be done. In fact if you look at
alioth:/git/pkg-php/php.git/hooks, we have enforced policies in
pkg-php.

Together with http://wiki.debian.org/PHP/GitUsage it's working fine.

Ondrej
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