FreeLists / beports / [beports] [haiku-development] Coordinating ports (#2) (was: Re: Distributed Version Control Tools)

[Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am 21.04.2008 um 16:34 schrieb Niels Reedijk:

> I have been working,
> together with James Woodcock, on a port of git to Haiku. I have
> published the sources and binaries (the latter hosted by Haikuware,
> thanks!) I also published an article on my weblog.
>
> Just FYI, to prevent any other unnecessary work duplication.
Better than just announcing finished ports, the real way of avoiding  
duplicated work would be to announce the beginnings of a port.
That was the whole point that this list pointed me to the BePorts  
project. I have since then updated large parts of the site, logging  
pretty much everything I have done so far and publishing my patches in  
its SVN. Other than that I'm only aware of Ingo's ports in Haiku's  
SVN, of Ryan's WebKit port and the OpenJDK port.
Only recently did I learn that Duane had been porting Python and just  
now that Niels has ported git, too.
We really need a way to coordinate such efforts!

a) When someone starts a port, please announce it, so that a Wiki page  
on BePorts can be set up, linking to external pages or tracking  
progress/patches there. This could be on the BePorts mailing list or  
on the OpenBeOS mailing list (since usually it's not directly related  
to Haiku development).
http://www.freelists.org/list/openbeos
http://www.freelists.org/list/beports
Or simply drop me or Brecht or Scott a line.

Of course there's no obligation to finish any port started; it allows  
others to help you or pick up where you got stuck. It also facilitates  
merging necessary changes upstream.
b) How should somewhat-working ports be annouced for users to test?
I decided not to bother this list, so I announced git on IRC; I for  
one do not seem to have permission to post blog entries on haiku- 
os.org. Again, BePorts list would be good to cc but few people would  
be reading it, I figure.
Best regards,

Andreas

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