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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> > For example I suggest visiting gEDA achives, which are really fine.
> > http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/Dec-2008/msg00012.html
> >
>
> Interesting discussion. Lets continue it. Your example does not point
> to a sourceforge mailing list, so it weakens what might have been a good
> point, or at least it does not strengthen it.

Indeed. It's good that discussion is demanding with no 
cornercutting... Well, the gEDA link was referring to my personal near 
optimum and I got it for granted that everyone knows SF archives.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=Pine.GSO.4.61.0601191507490.11610%40vipunen.hut.fi

> Someone suggested using Tracker, which dove tails revision control with
> mailing list type postings. I think tracker complements subversion.

Yes, Trac seems very attractive. As an example, GNU Radio uses it too. 
There are also back-ends for other version control systems. Subversion is 
easy to use, but I don't know if it's the best. This small developer pool 
it may not even matter.

> I have never used it, but I wonder if we should look into that and see
> if we can find a site to host it. I may be able to offer solution on
> hosting, but I want to take the path of least resistance if we can.

I have no personal experience either, but am definitely supporting 
anything with clear benefits. SF might be easiest way if Igor has time and 
will to do it. It's not the best, but I think it's acceptable.

> My point being, if we are going to invest effort in a change, we should
> find the best solution for our efforts rather than revisiting the
> decision down the road.

I clearly see your point here and this really is a big infrastructural 
question that I alone have no answer for. It's a cost-benefit analysis and 
it clearly has many dependencies. For hosting, some distributed system 
would be preferable so that whole project is not on single HD behind DSL.

-Vesa