[Gnewsense-dev] devuan and automated building

[l***@riseup.net]

Hi list,

a couple of weeks ago i stumbled over devuan,
a fork of debian aiming at init freedom.

what might be of interest to us, is the way they setup their system.
i don't know all the ins 'n outs, but on their website [1] they
have a small drawing of their continuous integration setup.

greetink'
eddi

[1] https://devuan.org/

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:49:57 +0100

Post by l***@riseup.net
what might be of interest to us, is the way they setup their system.
i don't know all the ins 'n outs, but on their website [1] they
have a small drawing of their continuous integration setup.

I definitely want to give Jenkins a try. Vagrant might also be useful
to get people started with gNewSense development.

Personal branches are also on my wishlist. That means moving the code
away from Savannah. Most code hosting tools seem to be geared towards
Git. I prefer Bazaar, but I'm not married to it. In any case, Gitlab's
open core model is not very appealing. Ideas welcome.

[m***@dimsedutter.net]

Hi Sam,
what about Fossil (http://fossil-scm.org) as an alternative to Savannah?
It also integrates a wiki and one could base the gnewsense website/wiki
on Fossil instead of having one distributed version control system and
one separate wiki/website.

Cheers,
mark

Post by Sam Geeraerts
Op Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:49:57 +0100
what might be of interest to us, is the way they setup their system.
i don't know all the ins 'n outs, but on their website [1] they
have a small drawing of their continuous integration setup.
I definitely want to give Jenkins a try. Vagrant might also be useful
to get people started with gNewSense development.
Personal branches are also on my wishlist. That means moving the code
away from Savannah. Most code hosting tools seem to be geared towards
Git. I prefer Bazaar, but I'm not married to it. In any case, Gitlab's
open core model is not very appealing. Ideas welcome.
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[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:38:53 +0100

Post by m***@dimsedutter.net
what about Fossil (http://fossil-scm.org) as an alternative to
Savannah? It also integrates a wiki and one could base the gnewsense
website/wiki on Fossil instead of having one distributed version
control system and one separate wiki/website.

Interesting if we were starting from scratch. But we already have some
history and migrating that (wiki + bugs) is probably a non-trivial
task. I'm rather fond of Bazaar, even though everybody and their dog
seems to use Git these days (ok, the dog might be using Mercurial).
Trading it for something less known is going to alienate us from any
potential contributor, I gather.