[maemo-developers] Build Evince on Maemo

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 14:54 -0300, ext Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Jan 7, 2008 1:47 PM, Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:20 -0300, ext Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> > Are you suggesting to just maintain a patch in GNOME bugzilla instead of
> > open a project on garage?
> >
> 
> Kind of... The goal is to integrate the Maemo/Hildon patch to Evince
> source tree, just as it was done before for Abiword and Gnumeric for
> instance. So, GNOME bugzilla is the right place for that.
> 
I tend to disagree.
You're mixing two different things here - porting application to maemo
and contributing changes to mainstream development. In this particular
case the goal of the project shouldn't be just to integrate maemo patch
into evince mainstream. The primary goal from my point of view is to
port the application to maemo and let people use it. garage project
would serve this goal, but having patches in gnome bugzilla wouldn't.

Look at the existing  maemo applications - they're in much better shape
than evince just because they have their own svn, bug tracker and other
places for developers and users to communicate.

> > >From my point of view having project on garage is a bit more than just
> > that. It's also the place for history of your changes, request tracker,
> > news and so on, so it's more convenient for users.
> >
> > What do you think about this?
> >
> 
> What I wouldn't want was to maintain a separate source tree for
> Evince. Once the patch is officially integrated to the tree it would
> become useless.
> 
I don't see any harm in maintaining maemo specific changes in separate
place. Anyway some of them will never be integrated into mainstream.

So, if I convinced you welcome to evince project on garage when it's
created :)

-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki