[development] howto about git and drupal modules maintain

[Jerad Bitner]

Sounds like we need more of a task force then a single person, dww :)

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net> wrote:

>
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
>
>  Well, there are quite good GUIs for svn (often better than those for CVS).
>>
>
> git can pretend to be a CVS pserver, so I believe you can just use all the
> CVS clients directly and point them at git.
>
>  But we need that and we need someone to take over and really support
>> the version control API so that project/project_issue/project_release
>> modules can be RCS independent  (see
>> http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-July/030453.html
>> for a plea for help on this).
>>
>
> That's the heart of the matter.
>
> In addition to someone to adopt, fix, maintain and extend the
> versioncontrol API and the appropriate backend (versioncontrol_git,
> presumably), the other big hurdle here is that someone also needs to
> volunteer to be The Main Support Person(tm) for the 100s (1000s) of support
> questions that are going to be generated as a result of moving to a
> distributed version control system for the Drupal developer community.  I'm
> not taking that job.  Above person also gets to rewrite dozens of handbook
> pages and keep them current/accurate.  You'll probably want to start giving
> talks at every DrupalCon about distributed version control, too. ;)
>
> Cheers,
> -Derek (dww)
>
>
>
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