Thank you, Benjamin, for a much more clear and helpful response than mine! On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 11:44 Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amanda (et al), > > > > Here’s a great guide to git-svn: > > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-and-Other-Systems-Git-and-Subversion > > > > It is another thing to learn (sorry about that), but the SVN setup > (especially for web site stuff) is pretty deeply baked into the > infrastructure of the ASF. > > > > Additionally, the ASF has (ultimately) legal responsibility over the > authority and access of the code and content it (through us) produces. Even > pull-requests accepted for Apache projects via GitHub still go through the > same CLA processes before getting merged into the ASF-level git > repository—which is then synchronized back to GitHub. The GitHub mirrors > are there mostly for findability, afiak. :) > > > > We will have a git repo for our code. > > The svn repo is needed only for the web site, and hopefully git-svn will > help ease folks into using it—but SVN’s pretty easy to learn (especially > for web site stuff). Tools like this make it even simpler: > https://tortoisesvn.net/ > > > > Let me know if you need help along the way! > > Benjamin > > -- > http://bigbluehat.com/ > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > > > *From: *Randall Leeds <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, October 18, 2016 12:23 PM > *To: *Amanda Visconti <[email protected]>; Benjamin Young > <[email protected]> > *Cc: *[email protected]; Nick Kew <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: Things we need > > > > ASF will host a static site in svn so it's similar to GH Pages in that > sense. > > You can use git-svn if you'd rather use git to interact with the repo. > > For the non-www project code, we will get a git repo and not svn at all, > though as I understand it the publishing hooks infra has set up for the web > site rely on us storing those assets in the appropriate SVN repo. > > One can even add two git remotes, one for code and one for git-svn, and > have a workflow just like a master/gh-pages branches. > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 09:10 Amanda Visconti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks for this! I'd be willing to own the website, though I'm more > comfortable with git than svn. That would also let us host the site via > GitHub Pages, which I've found useful in the past (though maybe there are > downsides to GH Pages for a project like this that I haven't thought of?). > Best, > Amanda > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Benjamin Young <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all! (CC’d people I mention directly) > > > > That clock thing keeps spinning round and round (somewhat influenced by > the rotational habits of the planet…I’m guessing…). Consequently, we’ve got > some items to tackle before our next Incubator report. > > > > Here’s the list in my head—please extend it as needed! > > > > Web Site > > - pending a URL fix (Nick’s got this, I think) > > - SVN repo is here: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/annotator/ > > - Current site looks like this: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/annotator/site/index.html > > - Needs: > > o Determine if we keep the old site (can we copyright/license-wise)? > Randall? > > o Someone to “own” this bit. Amanda? > > > > Code > > - Repo? Is this it? > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/annotator/ > > o Do we just make additional directories (trunk, branch, etc) there? > > o That’s how Streams does it: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/streams/ > > - Plan. :) Randall, you want to lead the charge on that? > > o Do we continue with the Annotator.js code base? > > o Smaller bit based on Randall’s work? > > o Do we also want server side code now/yet/soon? /me has some. > > > > Wiki > > - Confluence? Nick? Randall? > > > > Issues > > - Can we use GitHub issues for that? Nick? > > > > That’s certainly not all we need to do here, but it’s what’s been buzzing > in my brain, so I’m sharing it. :) > > > > Additions more than welcome! > > Benjamin > > > > -- > http://bigbluehat.com/ > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > > > >
