Shorewall devel - Aug 2009 - Possible re-organization of the Shorewall Git Tree

Now that Sourceforge supports multiple git repositories per project, I
think that we should consider re-organizing our single repository into
multiple repositories.

Today, we have a single repository with the following directories:

	Shorewall
	Shorewall-lite
	Shorewall6
	Shorewall6-lite
	tools
	web
	docs

I would prefer to have some of those as separate repositories.

It is especially awkward having the tools in the same repository as the
rest of the products. Today, I needed to create a patch release so I
checked out the 4.4.0 branch.

I applied the appropriate patch to Shorewall and proceeded to build the
patch release. It failed to do something that I wanted it to do (copy
the release notes and known_problems to a known place) so I edited
tools/build/build44, added the command to do what I wanted and re-ran
the build. Crap! The build totally blew up because the 4.4.0 tools were
not capable of building a patch release.

Committed the change to build44, checked out master, applied the build44
fix to master, re-run the build. Damn! Wrong branch is checked out.
Build failed.

Committed the build44 fix to the master branch, checked out 4.4.0, built
again. Oh &^%$#@#$!! Forgot to copy the master branch''s build44 to
/usr/local/bin/...

You get the idea.

Having the web site raw HTML files in the same repository also seems silly.

So I''m thinking of moving at ''tools'' and
''web'' to their own
repositories. Any issues that anyone can see?

Thanks,
-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep        \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________



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Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
> So I''m thinking of moving ''tools'' and
''web'' to their own
> repositories. Any issues that anyone can see?
I''ve split the repositories as described.

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep        \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________



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