Proposal for change to repository governance - follow-on

[Colin Clark]

Hey,

On 16-Jun-09, at 10:24 AM, Michelle D'Souza wrote:

> Are we also voting on this? It sounds like a good idea to me.

This is not a major governance change, so lazy consensus applies as  
usual. Generally speaking, we only need to call formal votes for major  
issues, otherwise, it's business as usual.

Comments about the actual issue below...

>> My proposal is to make an "externals-only" section which is  
>> intended to be the root
>> checkout for developers who work across multiple trunks. This  
>> ensures that multiple
>> projects can be checked out with consistent directory names and in  
>> a consistent
>> relative structure.
>>
>> I suggest making an area such as "fluid-checkout" or "fluid- 
>> externals", which,
>> for example, has an externals structure like this:
>>
>> fluid-checkout\
>>  fluid-infusion -> https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/fluid/infusion/trunk
>>  fluid-engage -> https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/fluid/engage/trunk

This makes a lot of sense to me, and will make it easier to share  
across the two code bases. There's a social side to this, as well.  
We'll want to continue to make sure we're working openly and keeping  
everyone in the loop on our work.

Unless anyone objects, I think we should go ahead and set this up in  
SVN. The only question is what to call it.

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org