From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1E0uQTC015565 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:26 -0500 Received: from host06.hostingexpert.com (host06.hostingexpert.com [216.80.70.60]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1E0u4d7029987 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:05 -0500 Message-ID: <47B391A1.3080904@linuxtv.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:01 -0500 From: Michael Krufky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Deucher References: <20080205012451.GA31004@plankton.ifup.org> <20080205080038.GB8232@plankton.ifup.org> <20080205102409.4b7acb01@gaivota> <20080213202055.GA26352@plankton.ifup.org> <37219a840802131524i33e34930uc95b7a12d484526a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com, Guennadi Liakhovetski , v4lm , Brandon Philips , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Moving to git for v4l-dvb List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: Alex Deucher wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 6:24 PM, Michael Krufky wrote: >> On Feb 13, 2008 3:20 PM, Brandon Philips wrote: >>> On 10:24 Tue 05 Feb 2008, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>>> Maybe we've took the wrong direction when we've decided to select >>>> mercurial. It were better and easier to use, on that time, but the -git >>>> improvements happened too fast. >>> We should consider a move to a full-tree git. Particularly, it would be >>> nice to be have v4l-dvb merging/building against other subsystems in the >>> linux-next tree: >>> >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/512 >>> >>> Also, it would save the silly pain of things like this meye.h thing and >>> pulling in fixes from the rest of the community that patches against git >>> trees. >> >> When we moved from CVS to HG, we lost many developers. >> >> Of the developers that remain, most of us are finally comfortable >> working in mercurial. >> >> I understand the benefits of moving to git, but that option was on the >> table when we moved to mercurial from cvs, and it was shot down. >> >> I would prefer that we stick with what we have for now -- for the sake >> of our users / testers, and for the sake of our developers. >> >> Lets not drive away more contributors. >> >> Additionally, the moment we move development from hg to git, we are >> bound to the development kernel -- we will no longer be able to work >> against any stable kernel series, and we will lose all of our testers. > > Why would git have any affect on what kernels you could test against? > It's just an scm like hg or cvs. Alex, You are correct. However, it is not just the SCM in question right now. Quoting Brandon Philips, "We should consider a move to a full-tree git" ...he is not suggesting that we simply change SCM's -- rather, he is suggesting that we work within a full kernel tree, using git, just as the other subsystems do. This model makes sense for kernel development, but this is not exactly kernel development -- it is kernel *driver* development. We stand to lose too much by moving to this model. Regards, Mike -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list