Hey. So the writing has been on the wall for a while now. We'll be moving all of Checkbox over to git. Launchpad now supports hosting git repositories and thus the main blocker is gone.
Still, we won't be doing this overnight. There are important things we must look after before this is possible. First of all, I want to ensure that everyone is familiar and comfortable with git. Due to my stubbornness we have had git-lp for a good while. This allows us to work with git, if desired, and still contribute bzr branches to launchpad. I know that many of our contributors are currently using that tool. Still, native git is quite different and I want to make sure that everyone is comfortable with the switch. I'd like to extend my invitation to personally train, teach and troubleshoot any of the issues you encounter with git. Feel free to ping me privately for help anytime you need it. Second, and not less so, we need our infrastructure to support git. There are many little things to do here. We need to re-export our git tree to bazaar, so that our PPA builds can continue (as they don't support git yet). We need to port our release scripts to work with git (though I would argue that we can really totally re-do the whole release process if we use git towards our advantage, more about that below). The biggest problem we're facing here is, though, Tarmac. Tarmac is the thing that looks at merge requests, merges them, runs tests and either commits or tells us about problems. Since we're not quite interested in doing this manually anymore, we have to invest some time in making it support Git. Fortunately we are not alone in our situation. I've started working with Michael Vogt (mvo) as they are in a similar situation and want very much the same thing. We'll work together in adding git support to Tarmac and letting everyone that wants to use that aware of it. Lastly, there are the new opportunities. The git transition on launchpad coincides with similar movement in the Debian Python packaging community. We can use some of the recently developed tools like git-dpm. We can use git to work on our upstream code, on our test releases, on our production releases. We can also use it to work on packaging for Ubuntu, for Debian and any custom effort that me may need to do. I strongly recommend you to look into git-dpm and using it in conjunction with git-using upstream. If you're interested and want to help or if you're just curious and want to know more then feel free to reach out to me. I will deliver updates as the effort continues. Best regards ZK -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
