[opensource-dev] Wiki posting: Open Source Repository Strategy

Kent Quirk (Q Linden) q at lindenlab.com
Mon Mar 22 07:01:17 PDT 2010


At this point, our internal branches still contain proprietary libraries and parts of our server code. We have to have an explicit export process to block that. We have a team working on "source code splitup" to finish the separation of our systems into libraries, and when that's finished I believe we'll be able to do it all with hg. 


On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Aleric Inglewood wrote:

> *confused* I thought that we were going to use hg, so that
> commits made internally can be easilly and frequently
> pushed to a public repository. Is that "viewer-public"?
>  
> Then why is there is there still a "viewer-external"
> using SVN? That kinda defeats the purpose of hg?
>  
> I thought, and think, that snowglobe development
> should also be done with hg, so we can have all
> the benefits of having local repositories and
> experimental branches to developer and test patches.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> Hi, all. I've created a draft of our repository strategy for how we will be handling open development branches at LL, and posted an annotated diagram on the wiki.
> 
>        https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Repository_Strategy
> 
> Questions and constructive commentary are encouraged. Since it's policy we intend to follow, please edit only for clarity. If it needs substantive tweaking, please let us do it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>        Q
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