[ccan] CCAN status update

[Adam Kennedy]

Since we've been accepted as a mentor org, I've been looking more into 
the current repo.

One thing we really need is some intro docs on how to get started, which 
I'll admit I need more than other people since I'm not a C native. It 
also would help me understand the workflow you are currently using.

It's probably also time to look at doing a repository refactor as well, 
to start to conceptually separate a few things we've currently got 
munged together.

For example, we currently don't separate the repository state of 
packages from the release state.

That's fine for now, but it's something we probably need to look at 
fairly soon.

I have to say I'm also not a huge fan of bzr either (I know you wanted 
to try it out because it was a version control you hadn't tried yet) :)

Mostly, that's because I hate 1. Email 2. Patch files 3. Not having lots 
of people able to commit to trunk 4. Not having a decent Win32 gui that 
I can find.

Mostly, I hate it because I can't see a simple way to refactor the 
layout of the repository easily by anyone other than you :)

And we probably need to start deepen the tree a bit.

Adam K

Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Well, we got accepted for Google Summer of Code, we'll see if we get 
> any good project proposals. You can see some of the idea proposals I 
> came up with here:
>
> http://ccan.ozlabs.org/gsoc.html
>
> Most of the things we need are webby glue kind of things, to enable 
> contributions and use of CCAN. Don't feel you have to be a SoC student 
> to hack on any of them!
>
> In other news, I completed one module recently: typesafe_cb - macros 
> for safe callbacks (ie. avoiding void *). I am working on a hashing 
> module (either Bob Jenkins' lookup3 or murmur hash) and an allocator 
> module (for allocating within a region like a mmap'ed file). The 
> latter is checked in, but still a work in progress.
>
> More modules welcome!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rusty.
>
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