| Gr4cchus | hello, is anyone here? | 06:14 |
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| rajeevs | hi..Can you "fork" an existing project in launchapd? | 12:20 |
| wgrant | rajeevs: What exactly do you want to do? Launchpad models things in a rather different way than say GitHub. | 12:24 |
| wgrant | Normally people don't want to create a whole separate project -- they just want to create their own branch that the project maintainer can then merge. | 12:24 |
| wgrant | To do that in Launchpad, you just 'bzr branch lp:someproject', make your changes, then 'bzr push lp:~yourusername/someproject/whateverbranchname' | 12:25 |
| wgrant | So your branch shows up in the existing project. | 12:25 |
| rajeevs | ok, what if I am developing a submodule? | 12:25 |
| wgrant | I'm not quite sure what you mean. | 12:25 |
| rajeevs | i am developing an independent addon to an existing project as part of GSoC 2014 | 12:26 |
| rbasak | rajeevs: on Github, there's this concept of repositories, and each repository has multiple branches. But it doesn't really work like that - each branch is (relatively) independent. | 12:26 |
| rajeevs | to the GNU Mailman project | 12:26 |
| wgrant | Is it going to be part of the same codebase? | 12:26 |
| wgrant | I aw you created mailmancli earlier. | 12:26 |
| rbasak | rajeevs: on Launchpad, each branch is independent in its own right (effectively). So you just push the branch to your own space, and that's a fork in itself. | 12:27 |
| wgrant | In general, each Launchpad project represents all the branches of a particular codebase. | 12:27 |
| rajeevs | the code would eventually end up with the mailman.client project | 12:27 |
| wgrant | If it's a separate codebase, it should usually be a separate project. | 12:27 |
| rajeevs | how does this sound: I push my work to the mailmancli i have created and when the project is completed I push it to the mailman.client project? | 12:29 |
| wgrant | rajeevs: You'd want to talk to your mentor and the project maintainers about that. | 12:31 |
| wgrant | From a Launchpad perspective it probably makes sense to put it in a branch of mailman.client from the start, but it's really up to how the project maintainer's want to do things. | 12:31 |
| rajeevs | fine :) that should do it :) mentor too would want to do it the launchpad way :) thanks for the help | 12:34 |
| rajeevs | One more question, what does "Link to a Bazaar branch already on Launchpad" feature mean? | 12:35 |
| wgrant | It's for setting the trunk branch to a branch that already exists. Normally you'd just push to lp:someproject to create the trunk branch directly. | 12:37 |
| shadeslayer | is launchpad processing uploads normally? | 16:44 |
| shadeslayer | ah there we go | 16:44 |
| dobey | yes | 16:44 |
| dobey | :) | 16:44 |
| === matsubara is now known as matsubara-afk | ||
| mark06 | when adding downloads to a project, what's the diff between code release tarball and installer? | 20:14 |
| mark06 | is code release tarbal meant to be a binary zip or source code zip? | 20:15 |
| dobey | mark06: ideally source, but i don't think there is any validation for it, so it can really be any file type afaik | 20:27 |
| dobey | mark06: at least, it can be any file, as long as the licensing allows redistribution of the file and all its contents. | 20:28 |
| mark06 | if the license doesn't allow redistribution, then I should go for installer? I don't get how licensing relates | 20:42 |
| mark06 | I always get confused for binary tarballs, they're neither 'source code tarballs' nor 'installers' | 20:43 |
| dobey | if licensing doesn't allow redistribution, you are not allowed to host it on launchpad, unless you are the owner of the code and have a commercial subscription | 20:44 |
| === matsubara-afk is now known as matsubara | ||
| dobey | mark06: a tarball of binaries is an "installer"; it installs to wherever it is extracted | 20:44 |
| mark06 | ah I see, however I don't notice any place where that option makes any difference.... | 20:52 |
| mark06 | and it can't be changed anywhere for the download.... possibly it's not even stored? | 20:52 |
| mark06 | thanks anyway! | 20:52 |
| dobey | it's stored, but may be immutable. it's just used in display on the downloads page | 20:53 |
| mark06 | II don't see it anywhere in downloads page: https://launchpad.net/screenwrite/+download | 21:04 |
| dobey | oh, i thought it was | 21:07 |
| mark06 | ok thanks anyway | 21:36 |
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