Re: Making NetBeans' Mercurial More Manageable

Re the Subversion mirror, this (
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Accessing+your+Bitbucket+Repository+via+Subversion)
might be worth keeping an eye on.

On 4 November 2011 08:28, Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you so much, Jesse, for your thoughtful and informed response.
> You make a lot of good points and I'd be surprised if there's anyone
> who knows more -- or has thought more -- about this topic than you.
>
> One particularly noteworthy point is that having an alternate,
> simplified process might encourage casual contributions without any
> real burden for the full-time developers working on NetBeans.
> Although having to download a ~ 3GB hg repo can be a barrier to a
> casual contributor, it works out nicely that most of this is
> historical information not really needed for simple changes.
> Likewise, direct push (or commit, in the case of svn) access isn't
> needed for simple changes either.
>
> While even simple contributions can be very valuable, I think that
> encouraging simple contributions now will likely pay off in more
> significant contributions later as contributors gain experience.
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Jesse Glick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > ...
> > An easy action would be to publish a read-only Subversion mirror from
> which
> > you could check out and update a subset of sources.
> > ...
> --
> Tom Wheeler
> http://www.tomwheeler.com/
>