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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:28:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf
From: Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com>
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On 26 October 2012 16:04, Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de> wrote:
> Am 26.10.2012 um 14:16 schrieb Svenn Are Bjerkem:
>
>> and that I do not know what kind of patches or
>> repositories we are talking about. With "remote repo" I understand
>> stuff on github or any other place but git.geda-project.org.
>
>
> Exactly. Searching at github.com for "geda" finds no less than 160 forks.
> Some even from people with commit access to geda's own repository. And there
> are even more fork on other sites.
>
> I'm not talking about this in public, these people could feel like I point
> with my finger towards them and shy away even more.

I got curious and headed over to have a look at the misery. It turns
out that there are 14 projects forked off of geda-gaf in there. Found
some regulars, yes, but I also found that they just slipped into the
clone of git.geda-project.org. Most of the forks have their master
already pushed into git.geda-project.org so I ended up with two forks
with genuine master data compared to G-P. I do not count genuine
branches found on the forks as I expect those to have been merged back
into master in case they were successful. Unfortunately it seems that
rebasing has been the favourite tool, and that leaves the working
branches dangling seemingly helpless and forgotten.

Looking at the geda-gaf fork from Peter Brett, I think that's the way
the whole project should have been run: People without commit access
make a fork, implement code/bug/fix and push it back to their own
branch. The interested soul add the fork as a remote and test the
code/bug/fix in his local work tree. When the work is done, a pull
request is pushed to the overlords controlling the mainline for audit.
Good stuff is then put on top of master and the cycle starts again. As
long as all the forks out there have the same SHA as mother,
overlaying code is a breeze.

I'm going to have a look at all the other geda forks to see what they
really try to provide. I think most of the forks are just result of
the mainline geda development not being up to date with modern chaotic
development methods.


-- 
Svenn