Re: [glob2-devel] Well, we have a plan then.

[Stéphane Magnenat]

> So
> * Over the next week, Nct needs to setup Mecurial. While this is being
> done........

We haven't fixed some important modalities yet. Do we want a maintainer? If 
not, how will we manage accounts?

I suggested to use the ones of the wiki. That would require using 
www.globulation2.org server, which I think is not a problem. Does the person 
who did this integration add mercurial authentification support (some hacks 
with apache authentification)?

I could provide mirror usable for anonymous download.

> * All three will have their CVS folders removed, then a simple hg add and
> hg commit by Nct for the inital import will be done (as said by bradley in
> another email, loosing histroy is not a concern)

loosing history is, and I refuse to do any work for the switch if we are 
loosing it (but I'm sure we there are several ways not to loose it). Past is 
valuable.

> * Development will, from this day forward take place in Nct's Mucurial
> SCMS.

Again, you don't solve the maintainance issue. Switching to a distributed 
system to keep the same development model, with an inferior management 
infrastructure (I won't give ssh access to everyone and editing .htaccess by 
hand is not realistic), is not such a great idea.

> Any comments, suggestions, or complants?? Otherwise, this will go ahead.

Complaints, yes. As you have seen I don't as much time for glob2 as I would 
like to, and I don't like to be assigned jobs when I asked for fundamentals 
questions that are being ignored.

Take care not to throw away the past too fast in a great moment of feeling 
that the future will be easier and bug free. Sure there is a lot of things to 
improve, sure actual stuff is not perfect. But it exists, and works. So when 
doing revolutions, please think about all consequences. This applies as well 
on infrastructure (mercurial switch which has to be done correctly) and code 
(rewrites introduce bugs, throwing away a working code should be done on 
sound bases).

Steph

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