[Design-team] source control for fedora-themes

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:02:44PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 13:46:18 Martin Sourada wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:46 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Was just chatting a bit with msourada in #fedora-design today, and I was
> > > curious about contributing kde-compatible bits to constantine-backgrounds
> > > directly instead of doing it separately like in the past, see
> > > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-kde-artwork/
> > > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-kde-artwork/browser
> > > but I'd like to get away from that, and get everything more collaborative
> > > and centralized.
> > >
> > > But, it seems there is no source-control currently being used for fedora
> > > theming yet.  I'd like to propose hosting what's used in stuff like
> > > constantine-backgrounds (and future fedora-related theming) in a git (or
> > > svn or whatever) repo on http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-design/
> > >
> > > I'm not suggesting (yet anyway) using such repos for design-workflow
> > > really, that's something that seems to already have been worked out.  I'm
> > > only talking about the often painful technical details of getting
> > > already- designed stuff under source-control, and packaged for distro
> > > use.
> > >
> > > -- Rex
> >
> > Yup, for my part a git repo would be really helpful. Spinning the source
> > tarball by hand is not an exactly nice experience ;-) Also keeping the
> > images in git (those that go into the package) is better than having
> > everything stored on my notebook (note that the images in the packages
> > aren't taken directly from wiki, but also resized/cropped to have all
> > the same sizes). Another thing is, that if we would do the wallpaper in
> > inkscape or blender, we could generate the PNGs/JPGs during the package
> > build. And git (or another SCM) is a nice way for keeping a log of
> > changes that are done to the sources from which we build. And of course
> > its much more transparent ;-)
> 
> Indeed, it's really much more easier to use some repository, even in one 
> person. Currently we're using SVN repo with Makefile that makes 
> testing/releasing much more easier. 
> 
> Could you set it up and we can ask for permissions later... GIT is not problem 
> for me.

There is actually a git repo, it just needs to be renamed to properly
match the Trac issue system.  I pinged the ticket to see if we could
get someone to look into it:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1404#comment:14

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