Collaboration in Kubuntu

[Zhengpeng Hou]

2007/6/19, Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee at kubuntu.org>:
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> Hey all,
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> Recently, we've had another package upgrade duplication, due to bad
> communication.   Obviously, this is less than desirable.
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> This has brought up some interesting issues:
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> 1)  Do we want to run kubuntu as a project where everyone has a set of
> packages that they modify, which no one else can touch, NMU and debian
> style?  What happens if the maintainer appears to go inactive, in this case?
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> 2)  If we don't want to do this, and want to be able to collaborate, so
> that everyone can touch everything, how are we going to make sure that
> people don't duplicate work?
>
> Is it reasonable to have guidelines such as:
> a)  If it's allowed to be committed now, upload it
> b)  If it is being worked on, but wont be committed within the next day
> or so, and you think someone else might have an interest in working on
> it, please send an email to this mailing list saying as much, and/or
> mention it on irc?
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> 3) Do we again want to look at using Bzr to host the source packages?
> Or even the debian directories of the source packages, for everything in
> KDE?  Particularly the things in main, which only a few people can
> upload to.
Why don't we maintain all packages relate to KDE using bzr or svn, you
know Debian guys has worked in this way well.
Zhengpeng Hou