[oss-devel] Mercurial server opened for testing

[Hannu Savolainen]

Hi all,

We have created a brand new Mercurial server that holds the "golden" 
source tree for oss-4.1. This is always the latest version to be used by 
developers who would like to make contributions to OSS. This repository 
contains a version with "All rights reserved" copyrights. This is 
intentional. We don't want this version to be used in production systems 
or to be redistributed. We will keep releasing the "official" source 
drops (under GPL, CDDL and BSD licenses) as before. These are the 
versions that should be used for "production". In addition the version 
contained in the repository is the 4.1-testing version which is 
potentionally buggy.

To use the repository server you need to install Mercurial 
(http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/). In some systems it's already 
installed or there is a precompiled package available. Others can 
compile it from the sources.

Before accessing the server you must make sure that all logins in all 
systems you may use have .hgrc in their home directory. This file must 
contain the following lines:

[ui]
username = Your Name <your_E-mail at your_address>

Othersise the commits you make will contain invalid user name and we 
will almost certainly refuse to accept them. Also make sure you have 
signed and returned the Contributor Agreement from our web site 
(http://developer.opensound.com) and read the instructions for contributors.

To fetch the initial version you need to cd to the directory where you 
want the local copy be located. Then fetch the sources. For example:

cd /usr/src
hg clone http://mercurial.opensound.com oss

The above will create /usr/src/oss that contains the latest sources.

Later you can upgrade to the latest version by executing:

cd /usr/src/oss
hg pull
hg update (if changes were available).

Consult the documentation of Mercurial for more info.

The procedure how we will take the contributions is still open. Ideas 
for this are welcome.

Best regards,

Hannu