[Cuis] Once central repo for Cuis and Packages? Or just a central list?

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Angel,

I really like the idea of having a single and consistent git commit of a 
Cuis version and all the packages that work on it. It would make much 
easier to go back to some date, and grab stuff that works well together. 
One downside is a bit more work for repo admin. A bigger one is that it 
makes things a slower for package maintainers. But the consistency might 
outweigh them.

Below, I extracted Angel's comments on this. Folks, please comment. Add 
steps or ideas to complete or enhance Angel's suggestion. Or if you 
don't like it, please say why. This is a rather important decision, and 
I'd like we to make a good choice.

One quick question for Angel (I'm a beginner with github): Can we tag a 
commit after it was done? That way, we could work together on Cuis and 
Packages for several days (involving many commits) and only when we are 
all happy, we can tag the last one as "v4.1 with packages" or something 
like that.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Angel Java Lopez wrote:
> ...
>
> But having the central repo with the package (not a link), has an 
> advantage: central repo could have tags. So, the packages at tag 
> "v0.1.0" are all compatible with that tag, and every improvement at 
> tag "v0.2.0" should be committed to that tag. The "master" tag is the 
> development tag.
>
> So, I could download the v0.2.0 with all the optional packages of that 
> version, without struggling going to each package author repo, and 
> trying to guess what package/tag is compatible with Cuis v0.2.0
>
> Cons: it put more responsability to central repo author(s).
>
>
>
>     2012/12/27 Angel Java Lopez <ajlopez2000 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ajlopez2000 at gmail.com>>
>
>         Until you have a package manager, first idea:
>
>         Use the cuis repo at GitHub.
>
>         Every contributor make a fork.
>         He/she add the code to his/her fork.
>         Make a pull request to central repo
>
>         Maybe, a guide to have folders per package/topic.
>         ...
>
>         Angel "MyLifeIsGitHub" Lopez ;-)
>         github:ajlopez
>