[ros-dev] Moving /trunk/tools into an own repository

[Colin Finck]

Hello all,

I'm currently developing two project tools which are going to be used by 
the German ReactOS foundation (custom IRC Server and plugin for Jameica 
- http://www.willuhn.de/products/jameica/).
They shall be committed into a public ReactOS SVN repository.

Since I believe that these tools are hardly useful for the average 
ReactOS developer, I don't want to commit them to our current 
/trunk/tools directory in the "reactos" repository. Among other 
disadvantages, every commit to them would trigger a useless BuildBot 
build, source checkouts would include unnecessary stuff, etc.

As this is generally the case with most of the stuff in /trunk/tools, 
I'd like to move everything below this directory and the /irc directory 
into a new repository called "project-tools".
We have already done a similar step in the past for the former "web" 
directory.

Additionally, the "press-media" directory would be a similar candidate 
for an own "press-media" repository. After these steps, our "reactos" 
repository would finally contain only OS development related stuff.

For comparison, Wine already keeps its main repository free from 
unrelated stuff and has several similar repositories (see 
http://source.winehq.org/git/).

If there are no objections to my idea within the next two weeks, I will 
proceed and set up "project-tools" and "press-media" repositories 
(preserving as much SVN history as possible).

Cheers,

Colin