From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.auctex.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:42:28 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87d55qms3f.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168206224 15058 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2007 21:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: auctex-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 07 22:43:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3fne-0008Ds-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3fnd-0004yN-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3fnS-0004xQ-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3fnP-0004wG-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3fnP-0004wA-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H3fnP-0004pi-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H3fnC-0004f3-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.166.37.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from wohler by h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:43:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-68-166-37-182.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jnZSwRg026qJclOrAUTL5YfN1kc= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:64935 gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1546 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli writes: > How do other projects with repositories outside of Emacs, like > CC mode or MH-E, handle this? Hi Ralf, I moved the MH-E repository from SourceForge to Savannah a year or two ago reluctantly, and it has simplified maintenance a lot by eliminating the merge process, even though it was largely automated. It was not a problem getting the requisite papers from the MH-E developers. While Emacs is not in pretest, it is not a problem to develop and release your package at any time. We have our own version (mh-version), our own tags (try cvs stat -v lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el), and I recently added a :package-version keyword to defcustom so that you can track the changes to your options in the various versions of your package. I would have preferred that a branch were created by the Emacs developers once the code was frozen for the first pretest so that we could continue to develop MH-E on the trunk. The rationale is that there is a lot more development on the trunk than on the pretest branch, and therefore merging from a branched pretest to the trunk is a lot easier than vice-versa. A branch also protects the pretest from unnecessary check-ins. But, until that happens, we can fairly easily create a branch ourselves and merge back to the trunk once Emacs is released. In short, I'm much happier using the Emacs repository at Savannah. -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD