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Re: After the first twelve years

From: Frank Mcgeough <fmcgeough_at_mac.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:11:29 -0400

On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Hey
>
> Tomorrow, on March 20 2010, it is exactly 12 years since the first
> release of curl. It is about time to freshen up a few things in this
> project.
>
congratulations!

> What am I talking about? Version control and Bug tracking mostly.
> I'll elaborate below. This is what I feel we should do to inject
> some freshness into the project and get rid of some of the rough
> edges that we still have.
>
> I'm listening to your feedback. Am I wrong or am I right?
>
> Version control
> ---------------
> <snip>
> The only sane way forward as I see things is to go git. With git we
> get much
> better handling of patches (git am), we get much better handling of
> original
> author (git am and git commit --author etc) and it allows for a lot
> more
> fancy stuff that might be handy at times (like offline work and
> branching
> and...).
>

A wonderful choice in my opinion. Widely adopted, lots of help
available for people that need it, fast, good features.

> Bug tracking
> ------------
> <snip>
> regular curl web server (owned and run by Haxx). My plan is to
> import the SF
> entries to trac and disable the SF one.
>

is Jira a possibility? Is the fact that its not open source an issue?
Its my current favorite because of ease-of-use but trac is fine.

> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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