fastimport and the scope of the hottest 100 effort

[Scott Kitterman]

> 2010/1/11 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
>> James raised the question recently about whether some of the packages in
>> the hottest 100 ought to excluded or not, e.g. pidgin's upstream is in
>> monotone and we don't have a bzr-monotone plugin.
>>
>> My answer is yes, we'll need to exclude some things. The import
>> breakdown analysis I did last Friday showed some packages don't have
>> publicly available source code, e.g. the HP printer drivers and various
>> X drivers.
>>
>> In terms of strategy, I think we should focus on getting as many imports
>>  in the top 100 as possible working via bzr-svn, bzr-git and bzr-hg. We
>> should also take a moment to confirm imports of these packages are into
>> 2a branches, *not* earlier or development formats.
>
> hottest100 really has two points:
>
>  * get some useful packages working to enable daily builds - they'll
> ship in Launchpad by April and need fodder
>  * get some clearer data on what kind of thing needs to be fixed
>
> both are useful.
>
> Outcomes for various packages may be
>
>  * there just is no public source tree (hplip, maybe
> kde-blah-workspace) - while this is true, daily builds aren't
> possible; this is worth tracking but not realy our problem

All the KDE upstream code is publically available in svn.  See
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources/Anonymous_SVN for details.

One point that may be a bit confusing is that kdebase upstream is in three
subdirectories: apps, runtime, and workspace and our naming doesn't
exactly align.  These correspond to our kdebase, kdebase-runtime, and
kdebase-workspace source packages.  See
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/

The above path is for KDE Trunk, but KDE 4.4 (the release for Lucid has
already been branched).  The branch to track that's aimed at Lucid is
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.4/kdebase/.  I'm not sure, given your
goals what you should be tracking.  Let me know if you need anymore help
finding KDE stuff.

Scott K