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[Sergey Sharybin]

Names are from phab's upstream, not choosen by us. On the one hand it might
make things more clear for the young players by renaming them, but on the
other hand if more experienced developer who is familiar with phab will
join the community he'll get a piece of confusion.

Phab repo is not gonna to disappear. It'll just be moved down. Either due
to inactivity in it or by manual tweaks.

And yes, we can put more info to the front page. in fact, there's
"Documentation" link in the side bar. Could be extented with a block with
explicit links to "how to clone repo" page (there's no single clone url,
you would also need to run one more extra command to update submodules).

Fork is not actually possible. Not in our infrastructure. We would likely
add blender-experiments repo where we'll be really liberal abour new
branches, but would not allow to create infinite amount of repos there.
 Eventually we'll have "official" mirror on github, where you'll be able to
fork tho.

Anyway, all this is rather minor things and mostly easy to solve tweak. For
now first-priority is to return infrastructure to a state when developers
might continue their work.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>wrote:

> The names are badly chosen if they need an explanation in order for them
> make sense.
>
> I am glad that this 'Phabricator' project is going to disappear. In my
> opinion, it should be hidden in the first place.
>
> I expected a Clone URL link to Blender git repo on the front page, together
> with a button Download Repo and possibly Fork.
> but since the main repo is not ready yet, this info will be on the
> frontpage later?
>
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> On 14 November 2013 09:12, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Woops, sent too early.
> >
> > As for names -- they might be a bit confusing on the first glance, but
> they
> > also have explicit comments on the bottom. This is just matter of getting
> > used a bit to new name and tools. Functionality-wise phab is really
> awesome
> > and it was best alternative to other things.
> >
> > As for order of repos -- they're ordered in recent activity order. We'll
> > settle with phab itself soon and it's repo will go down and stop
> confusing
> > you.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > As main git repo -- we don't have one yet. Last tweaks and checks are
> > > being made, then "no such repository" will go away.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Erwin Coumans <
> erwin.coumans at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> Just some honest feedback:
> > >>
> > >> I find it a very confusing page, all about Phabricator and not about
> > >> Blender,
> > >> why all the references to Phabricator? I don't care you are using
> > >> Phabricator,
> > >> but I do care about Blender.
> > >>
> > >> On the left bar, there is "Differential", "Maniphest", "Diffusion",
> > >> "Audit", "Feed",
> > >> weird names that require the user to read the explanation underneath
> to
> > >> understand what it is about.
> > >> And once you click on "Repository Browser", the first link points to
> the
> > >> Phabricator source tree.
> > >> I expect to find a direct link to the Blender BF main repo on the
> front
> > >> page on the left,
> > >> with instructions how to clone it in git. Instead, there is a lot of
> > >> nonsense and clutter (in my opinion).
> > >>
> > >> I couldn't find a link to the main git Blender repo, only to addons
> and
> > >> translations, but I am not interested in those.
> > >> If I click in the middle of the page on BF Blender, and then "Blender
> > >> Repository", it ends up telling me "No such repository 'B'".
> > >>
> > >> I guess you are still going to clean it up and make it work?
> > >> Thanks.,
> > >> Erwin
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin