On 12/1/15 12:57 , Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
Marcel Offermans wrote
Let me speak for myself here, I don’t see compelling arguments for moving to
Git. What problem are we solving here? Why is moving to Git the right solution?
That’s where my lack of enthusiasm comes from. Nobody has yet explained that to
me. And splitting the project so each subproject ends up in a different
repository
sounds even less appealing to me (which I am afraid will happen if we
just start moving one, or a few, subprojects). I would be in favour of a
plan where we
either move every subproject, or none at all. And before we start the
move, please come up with a plan that outlines the steps that need to be
taken.
Maybe even physically do the migration and demonstrate that things
like our release processes are still working. And yes, that is a lot of
work,
and enough people need to step up and offer their help.
I don't see compelling arguments to move to git either, however it seems
that some here prefer it. Therefore I put it in the same category as
other tools, some of us prefer or use Maven others bndtools - and we
support/allow both. And yes, this is already a problem for our users as
they have to know different tools to build different projects from
source - might not sound like a big issue, but still. Using different
SCMs for different sub projects will not make it easier for our users.
But maybe not really harder either. We have lots of reports were people
checkout the whole Felix source tree and try to build all projects from
the root, just because they are interested in a single project.
Splitting up will at least help here :)
Or to make the long story short, if some people their sub project
benefits from moving to git, I don't see a good enough argument to
prevent them from doing so.
Well, the argument to the contrary is perhaps that is makes it more
difficult for us as a community to have oversight into releases. It
almost assures us that some/many community members will never checkout
subprojects that aren't in the repository they normally work. Granted,
there is no guarantee of this now, since I can just check out what I
want anyway...but at least it is fairly easy for me to do so now and it
becomes more difficult if everyone spreads to their own repos.
So, in that regard, I'm more aligned with Marcel...all or nothing makes
more sense.
-> richard
Otherwise we would need to agree on all
tools - which would be a fun exercise :)
Regards
Carsten
