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Re: Paper: OSS-QM - Normalized sourcecode repositories


* Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  JFYI: yet another paper: Normalized sourcecode repositories.
> >
> >  http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf
> 
> Hi
>   When you post a link to a paper, it would be helpful to put a short
> summary in the email message. Otherwise people have to download and
> read the paper to discover if they want to download and read the
> paper.

Okay, here it is:

The paper describes a concept of normalized layouts for source
code repositories. In short points:

* repository locations and version numbers (so also tag names, etc)
  are normalized, so clients (eg. automatic build systems, monitors/
  notififactions, etc) do not need to know anything about individual
  upstream's naming schemes

* upstreams and distro-specific changes are collected in one place,
  so anyone can access them easily (even automatic systems, which
  want to notify on new 3rd-party changes or even run automatic
  tests on them)

* from certain distros (eg. Debian partially done), their changes
  can be directly imported

* distro buildsystems can directly fetch their package sources from
  there, w/o the need for applying additional patches (distro-
  specific changes are made directly in the vcs, published in the
  distro's namespace).
  
* distro source packages can be directly created from there.


cu
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