[Geany-devel] Consideration of using other repos like github

[Frank Lanitz]

Hi, 

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:23:31 +0800
"Kovich Ian" <kovich.ian at gmail.com> wrote:

> For me, I would like to have some little change and save it back to the
> repo.
>
> If the repo have a distributed source maintain function, I think that the
> mainstream code maintainer would be easier to do the code merge.

I'm not sure whether this is much useful for a general purpose. I'm
afraid the overhead for using such a tool might become much bigger then
the outcome. 

Right now there are a couple of ways for doing something like this,
depending on kind of changes:

As we already did in past, for bigger changes I see a chance to set up an
account on SF and creating a new branch inside the normal Geany
subversion were the feature is developed. But this is hardly depending
on the feature/kind of changes of course.

Another more locally way is to get a copy of git mirror available at 
http://git.geany.org/ and create a local branch. Once the feature is
ready to publish, Enrico, Nick or me could pull from that branch and
merge it into Geany's trunk branch which is a bit similar to what the
guys at Linux kernel development are doing. Of course this will need to
have git installed and get a bit familiar with it, but it's worthy ;) 

A third way I'm thinking of are the (devel) mailing list as well as the
patch tracker at sourceforge.net we could use for exchange code
snippets. 

> Just make a suggestion, thank all you guys work and let me have a good tool
> for programming.

Thanks. You are part of that ;) 

Cheers and just my 2 cents.
Frank
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