Hey Toni, On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Toni Menzel wrote:
> Hey this sounds like a good move. > Don't have any touch with Amdatu yet but moving to a DVCS is highly > appreciated ;) > > Regarding Bitbucket vs. Github: i have my eggs in Github but thats a personal > preference, also because Bitbuckets Git Support came late. > What i've heard from the bloggosphere (and i agree with that): Github has way > higher traction among developers,people etc. So putting a project into Github > gives you more "back from the community" than it might be the case in > Bitbucket. Anyway, both would work out great. Specially for non core > developer contribution and visibility. Fully aware of Github of course, but it does not integrate with the Atlassian tools, which for us is a big minus. Also (not relevant to Amdatu as it's an open source project) for companies wanting to host their own Github instance, it is very expensive. But I'm glad you like the proposed move! > Now, on the "many modules, many git repos" thing: > Be aware that moving between them is a clear mess. So the granularity should > be rather coarse grained and (of cause) not something like "per maven > module". We were thinking about a repository per project, not per bundle. SourceTree allows you to work on different repositories without too much pain in switching. > There is also something like git submodules to archive some dependency > mechanism between git repositories. But: IMHO this is a pain like nothing > else. I know Qi4J moving away from it now, after using it. That's good to know, so we probably don't need to look into that any further. > just my 2cts from a high level view. > Keep it up! Thanks for the feedback! > > Toni > > 2012/1/19 Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> > Hey guys, > > tldr: I propose we move our repository from Subversion to Git. > > The merits of distributed version control, and Git in particular, have been > informally discussed quite often, and I guess most of us agree that there is > a benefit to using them. If someone disagrees with that, please speak up! > > My proposal therefore would be to move Amdatu to Git, and given the fact that > we use the Atlassian toolchain, it probably makes the most sense to use > Bitbucket (which was acquired by Altassian some time ago) because it offers > us the best integration with the rest of their toolchain (integrating with > JIRA [1], Bamboo [2] and Confluence [3]). > > For working with Git, on the Mac there are a couple of great tools as well. > SourceTree [4] is free and works great, and a lot of people seem to be using > Tower [5] or Github for Mac [6] as well (for more background, see this > extensive thread at StackOverflow [7], which seems to favor SourceTree). I > have no experience with similar tooling for Windows, but Tortoise always > seems a popular choice for CVS and SVN and they do have a version that > supports Git [8] as well and this page [9] discusses other options. > > WDYT? > > Greetings, Marcel > > > [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/06/09/801/ > [2] > http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/05/11/bamboo-build-server-integration-with-bitbucket/ > [3] https://plugins.atlassian.com/40188 > [4] http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ > [5] http://www.git-tower.com/ > [6] http://mac.github.com/ > [7] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client-for-git-on-mac-os-x > [8] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ > [9] http://kylecordes.com/2010/git-gui-client-windows > > > _______________________________________________ > Amdatu-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.amdatu.org/mailman/listinfo/amdatu-developers > > > > > -- > Toni Menzel Source > > _______________________________________________ > Amdatu-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.amdatu.org/mailman/listinfo/amdatu-developers
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