Hi all,
I'm not in the PSC but I totally agree with Cameron. It's a good idea to have a sandbox in geonetwork for developers and branchs for specific projects. But, it's not always possible (or simple) to merge developments in the trunk (for good or bad reasons !). But, the possibility to have sandbox / branch allow to "create" a interseting communauty of projects around GeoNetwork, even these projects will not full compliance with GN.
If we will limit the lifetime, we have the obligation to merge branchs/sandbox in the trunk, and so if not possible, the branch/sandbox will be removed...for developers and GN, it could be very "difficult"...
With our project Geosource, we would like to integrate the SVN but even the current work of matthieu and francois-xavier to use the trunk and to propose new functionalities in the trunk, I'm almost sure some ones will be never merged.
Cia,
Pierre LAGARDE
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Envoyé : mardi 20 mai 2008 22:18
À : Jeroen Ticheler
Cc : geonetwork-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Objet : Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] Motion: Create a sandbox
environment on SVNA few comments on admin, based on watching how the Openlayers
sandbox has developed:Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi PSC,
> This is a motion for you to discuss and vote on related to a
> discussing on the list that clearly points to the need of a sandbox
> environment in SubVersion.
>
+1, although I realise I'm not on the PSC.
> Justification:
> Allow developers to use the GeoNetwork SVN as a place to
store their
> new software developments within the sandbox.
> This will help to keep projects aligned with the code on trunk and
> will also help to quickly merge new functions into trunk. By
> developing in a sandbox, other developers have an early
chance to see
> what is been developed in the sandbox. This will make it easier to
> make, understand and discuss proposals for new
functionality and will
> help to avoid forking.
>
> How:
> - We'll create a sandbox directory on SVN and add working copies of
> the trunk in there for those who want to work on a sandbox.
>
Developers should be able to create their own sandboxes. Eg:
sandbox/ticheler/geonetwork/...
or
sandbox/bluenet/geonetwork/...> - Sandboxes should have a limited lifetime and be focussed on
> development of new functionality that is intended to be merged back
> into trunk when accepted by the PSC.
>
-1
If a developer provides software worthy of the trunk, then
yes, it can be removed from the sandbox.
However, in Openlayers people have created experiemental
branches, or project specific branches which have not made it
back too the trunk and probably never will. However it is
nice to keep them as reference for future.
> - New committers will be added to SVN in the understanding
that they
> only work on the sandbox.
> - Commit access to trunk is not given to them, unless they become
> approved committers to the trunk or have received the OK for an
> individual commit.
>
> So I need one of you to second the motion and the others to vote.
>
> Ciao,
> Jeroen
>
>
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