[haiku-development] Coordinating ports (#2) (was: Re: Distributed Version Control Tools)
- From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:15:13 +0200
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).
//www.freelists.org/list/openbeos
//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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