Re: Summary of a IRC conversation in #zynot-infra

Am Son, 2003-08-10 um 18.18 schrieb Mark Guertin:
> On 8/10/03 7:19 AM, "Uwe Reimann" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >    1. We need a SVN FAQ. The FAQ basically should point to existing
> >       documentation but give a basic intro with examples specific to
> >       out trees. Mark Bainter already started a subversion tutorial
> >       which has been ported to Tiki by Dave Thacker.
> >       http://wiki.zynot.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=SubversionTutorial
> 
> 
> That's a good idea for sure.  I for one am an svn newbie and appreciate this
> greatly.
> 
> 
> >    2. We need prereleases right away. In order to give people
> >       something to play with we should be able to this right away.
> >       However, we didn't progress far enough to make official releases
> >       ("Unnamed Linux"). The proposed procedure is to set up the
> >       developer section in the repository where each developer can
> >       distribute his individual files. An entry in /core/README (to be
> >       created) should point the unaware to individual projects
> >       (beneath /projects and /developers).
> 
> 
> This is a touchy point.  Prereleases of what exactly?  AFAIK the only active
> trees being worked on ATM are PPC, and they are most definitely not ready
> for the public.

Well, I'm working on the cris port (cris the processor of Axis' Extrax
100LX, http://developer.axis.com). This is not ready for the public
either. On the other hand, this is the only glibc-2.3.1 based, as well
as the only self hosting distro for cris out there (AFAIK). I really DO
want to prerelease what I have so far to get other devs on board.

> 
> I think we need to discuss this further.  I for one don't want to see us
> just put out a gentoo knockoff, even for our developers release.  I want
> something that has been re-QA'd and is known to work, and I strongly feel
> that the first 'release' we do is a developers only release that is nothing
> more than a bare base system.  This is how we can get more contributions,
> give everyone a base and they will add all the things they need into their
> trees, etc.
> 
That's why we want to put it under /developers. This would be a kind of
"my prerelease under Zynot's roots" rather that "Zynot's prerelease".


> Zynot-submit?  That's a new one to me ...

Subversion can send mails for every commit. They go to zynot-commit (not
zynot-submit, apologies).

Best regards, Uwe