Unless there was a genuine technical reason beyond preference, I'd be against it.
I prefer Git over Subversion as well, but organizationally Apache has made a commitment to the tools we are given. There are much better things an Apache project can expend effort upon aside from switching version control and task tracking due to mere preference. If we can demonstrably show that Subversion and JIRA are hindering Libcloud development -- and, anybody who is allergic to Subversion having the possibility to use git-svn makes me doubt that -- I don't think this is a wise investment of effort. Can we name a bulleted list of ways Libcloud development will be better on GitHub? I can name one, audience, but we can keep our read-only GitHub mirror up to date better for that (something we need to work with infra on, I think). That being said, when I'm working on Libcloud I use Subversion. There are numerous ways it is better than Git, and there are numerous ways Git is better than Subversion. Libcloud is not a hundreds-of-commits-daily project, so the friction between the version control and myself is (speaking of when I was active) quite minimal. It could be CVS for all I care, as long as I can check in. (I actually prefer JIRA to GitHub issues, as well, particularly for a large organization. Since we are discussing preference.) On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Tomaž Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > Like others have already said, it's very unlikely that Apache will switch > to Github any time soon. > > One thing we could potentially do is to switch to git (git.apache.org) > from > svn. Currently we only have a read-only git mirror (git:// > git.apache.org/libcloud.git), but we could potentially use it as a primary > repository. > > For this to happen (IIRC, this could have changed recently) someone on the > team needs to write a request to participate in the git experiment, send it > to infra@ and commit some time for helping infrastructure with writing git > helper scripts. > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Jed Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Mahendra M <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Is usage of JIRA/SVN a mandate for Apache projects ? > > > > > > > Yes, and the likelihood of this changing is quite thin. > > > > -- > > Jed Smith > > [email protected] > > > -- Jed Smith [email protected]
