On 4 April 2018 at 23:34, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
> there is a little misunderstanding: I'm not talking about fully switching from
> svn to git
> I'm talking about keeping svn as canonical repository but adding a read-only
> git mirror like done on many svn repositories [1]

The JIRA said otherwise...

> This does not change anything to the host configuration, but adds a GitHub
> mirror for external people to contribute through GitHub Pull Requests, which
> are so much easier to submit than svn patch attached to a Jira issue: this
> will give a chance to get more contributions.

OK, fine.

> Later on, we can decide to switch to Git (with gitwcsub acting like currently
> svnwcsub), but that will be another choice to do in another time.

That will be a lot of work.

> Regards,
>
> Hervé
>
> [1] http://git.apache.org/
>
> Le mercredi 4 avril 2018, 10:32:55 CEST sebb a écrit :
>> On 4 April 2018 at 07:09, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote:
>> > What about creating a Git/GitHub svn2git mirror for projects.apache.org?
>> > This would be our first Git repo for community/comdev: I don't know which
>> > prefix we should use...
>> >
>> > Any objection?
>>
>> What are the benefits to using Git over SVN?
>> Do they outweigh the costs?
>> Who gets the benefit, and who pays the costs?
>>
>> ==
>>
>> Note that projects.a.o actually updates its own code repo using a role
>> account. I don't know if that can be done in Git.
>> It took quite a bit of work to ensure that the updates did not result
>> in a locked workspace.
>> (This used to happen regularly at the beginning)
>>
>> Also, the projects.a.o and reporter.a.o hosts share the same VM.
>> They would need to move together.
>>
>> And of course the VM puppet definition will need to be updated.
>> It's more complicated than a simple pubsub operation.
>>
>> > Perhaps we can do the same for the 3 other locations in svn
>> > https://projects.apache.org/project.html?comdev-community_development
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Hervé
>> >
>> > Le mardi 3 avril 2018, 09:20:00 CEST Vincent Tuybens (JIRA) a écrit :
>> >> Vincent Tuybens created COMDEV-288:
>> >> --------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >>              Summary: Request "Projects Directory" migration to GIT
>> >>
>> >>                  Key: COMDEV-288
>> >>                  URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-288
>> >>
>> >>              Project: Community Development
>> >>
>> >>           Issue Type: SVN->GIT Migration
>> >>           Components: Projects Tool
>> >>
>> >>             Reporter: Vincent Tuybens
>> >>
>> >> Dear all,
>> >>
>> >> is it possible for you to plan SVN to GIT migration for "Projects
>> >> Directory" project ?
>> >>
>> >> [{color:#0066cc}https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/projects.apache.o
>> >> rg/ {color}]
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >>
>> >> Regards.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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