[pony-build] Next steps for Khushboo and Fatima

Khushboo Shakya khusuz at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 18:53:12 PST 2010


Hello again,

Thanks for the ideas Titus. For my next task, I am thinking I should work on
building more build scripts. I had trouble with my last one so I want to
work on something similar so that I am more confident but in a different
repo maybe. So I will work on svn stuff.I will update you soon.

Thanks again!

Khushboo

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:57 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:54:41PM -0600, Augie Fackler wrote:
> >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:55 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Second, one of you could implement branch support for HgClone.  Right
> >>> now GitClone supports branches other than 'master', the default, while
> >>> HgClone does not support branches other than 'default'.  I know beans
> >>> about Mercurial, though, so this would be a reasonably independent
> >>> research project ;).  To get started, here are some things you could
> >>> do --
> >>
> >> In practice, using non-default branches in OSS is pretty rare. We're
> >> using it for Mercurial itself, but only for tracking "stable" versus
> >> "default," which is pretty minimal all told. When bookmarks become
> >> pushable (no real firm timeline on that), they'll probably see much more
> >> use.
> >
> > Hmm, didn't know that -- thanks!  I want to support them so that
> > we can test experimental branches and default branches from the same
> > repository.  It seems like a git-tish thing, maybe.
>
> That's certainly more common in the git community, probably because hg
> tends towards using patch queues for some reason. I'm *expecting*
> pushable bookmarks to change that somewhat, but we'll see how that
> works out when they're really around - it's very hard to predict what
> users will actually adopt.
>
> >
> >>> I can hook you up with one of the Mercurial maintainers quite easily
> >>> if you
> >>> need that level of expertise, BTW.  (You shouldn't but it's always
> >>> nice to
> >>> have it on tap!)
> >>
> >> I'm around, I'm not a member of crew, but I've done quite a bit with
> >> Mercurial internals and can easily get ahold of them if there's a
> >> question I can't answer. Also, I'm in UTC-6, so I'm probably a bit
> >> closer TZ-wise to you folks. Feel free to ask questions in #mercurial -
> >> it's well staffed by experts from morning in Europe until fairly late in
> >> the day in the US. mercurial{,-devel>@selenic.com are both good
> resources
> >> as well, with more eyes but higher latency.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --titus
> > --
> > C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
> >
>
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