Re: Using GIT as the canonical repository for Maven 3.x

[Brian Fox]

Agreed 100%, it applies across the board. We have two hurdles, one easy, 
one not so easy:

1. fix the release plugin / scm provider.
2. convince infra to host a rw git repo.
Tim O'Brien wrote:
I think DVCS would benefit Maven doc.  Someone (not a commiter) could clone
the site, fix it, contribute it back without having to jump through the JIRA
+ patch + "convince a committer to pay attention" hoop.   The main
difference here is that Git makes it really easy to merge in changes and
selectively ignore certain other changes.   Others could do the same thing,
we could have multiple approaches to choose from.   I think DVCS is a
solution to the Curse of the Maven site.

Maven site and documentation would benefit from easier forking/branching.
Your project would benefit from using a tool that encouraged external
innovation from non-committers and made it easier to merge radical
contributions into the Maven documentation set.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Vincent Siveton
<vincent.sive...@gmail.com>wrote:

  
Hi,

GIT is already proposed by infrastructure in read only mode
http://git.apache.org/
Using GIT in write mode sounds like a normal step.

Does Maven SCM support *fully* GIT? I think specially for some plugins
like the release plugin

Cheers,

Vincent


2009/4/23 Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com>:
    
Hi,

Maven was the first project at Apache to use JIRA and though there was a
great deal of concern/noise about using JIRA it ultimately proved to be a
decent system and now lots of projects are using JIRA.

I'm not particularly interested in mandating everything in Maven to use
      
GIT
    
but I would like to pilot the use of GIT as the canonical repository for
Maven 3.x and wanted to see what others thought.

I believe that GIT is going to be the dominant SCM in the very near
      
future
    
because the distributed nature is so much more inline with the way OSS
should work. Anyone can get a complete copy of our work and it is much
easier to absorb those changes. There are many examples now on the net
demonstrating projects that have switched to GIT and their communities
      
have
    
flourished as a result.

We are also seeing the rise of Java implementations of GIT and to me this
means there are going to be an order of magnitude more developers able to
work on the core system. JGIT, which is being developed primarily by
      
Shawn
    
Pearce @ Google, is awesome. I actually have been participating in
      
helping
    
with the build for JGIT and I've been working with Peter Royal to create
      
a
    
MINA SSHD wrapper around JGIT using JSecurity for authentication and it's
      
so
    
easy. Peter cranked out a working prototype in 3 hours. This simply is
      
not
    
possible with C-based systems like Subversion which is essentially a
      
closed
    
box or generally uninteresting to Java developers. JGIT along with Gerrit
(an awesome code review tool Shawn Pearce is working on) is being used by
the Google Android team and it's working well (I'm meeting with Shawn
      
Pearce
    
today to chat) so I think we have evidence this works.

I'd be happy if everyone here wanted to use GIT but I do believe that I
      
have
    
a better chance of getting people involved with Maven 3.x if I can get
      
the
    
canonical repository in GIT.

In the Maven project we set precedent with JIRA and now I would like to
      
do
    
that with GIT.

If Apache Infrastructure doesn't want to support this then I feel we can
      
do
    
the same thing we did with JIRA until they catch up. I think having a
canonical repository at Github is safe, well backed up and maintained and
      
I
    
don't think we would have to worry about anything there. They have
      
full-time
    
staff and a slew of engineers so I would even argue that a repository at
Github would be just as safe and well maintained as a Subversion
      
repository
    
here.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jason

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