Moving our branches (again)?
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sun Jun 26 14:56:30 UTC 2011
Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>More spam, hi!
>
>So, I was just wondering about the uglyness of our branch naming. We
>have stuff like
>
>~kubuntu-packagers/kdeedu/ubuntu
>
>Now that is an ubuntu branch of kdeedu owned by kubuntu-packagers.
>Which really is not what the branch contains at all. If anything it is
>the packaging of kdeedu owned by kubuntu-packagers.
>
>General inquiry: what do you think about moving our branches once more
>into a form of:
>
>~kubuntu-packagers/kubuntu-packaging/kdeedu
>
>Advantages:
>* easier scriptable in various ways as changing stuff is at the end of
>the url
>* easier branching (currently if you branch and forget to specify a
>name or use nested branching you get a folder 'ubuntu')
>* overall clearer meaning
>
>Disadvantages:
>* yet another move
>* should we ever move the same branches to full-source packaging that
>would again break the sanity of the urls
>
>Quite honestly I myself do not have strong feelings either direction,
>but clearer urls certainly would be nice.
I think not messing with it further would be even nicer. I can see advantages, but I think it's not worth the trouble and confusion.
Scott K
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