I can help out a bit with documentation as I've helped authoring a guideline over at the CouchDb and DeltaSpike projects (where we both use GIT)
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Git_At_Apache_Guide http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/SVNvsGIT Some of it needs updating. Especially since I consider the 'experiment' to be successful. LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dennis Lundberg <denn...@apache.org> > To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:53 PM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > > +0 > > I personally don't have the git knowledge to be able to help, but I'm > interested in learning the new technology. > > In my view the tooling for git is not yet as good as for SVN, but it's > getting there. > > We have two important things to look out for: > > 1. Support for git at the ASF, and documentation about it, is not nearly > as good as for SVN yet. That will hopefully change over time as more and > more projects move, but it's still something we need to be prepared for. > > 2. As with all things new there will be mistakes made in the beginning. > Let us start small, with one or two sub-projects, and learn from that > experience before we try to do a full scale migration. I suggest > starting with maven-3, and maybe scm or wagon which are pretty > stand-alone projects. > > On 2012-09-05 13:04, Olivier Lamy wrote: >> Hi, >> This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one >> svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). >> First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra >> for this move and more generally on git Apache infrastructure. (if you >> are volunteer you must say that with your vote). >> The vote will pass on majority (PMC committer) and if we have the >> minimum of 3 volunteers ! >> BTW contributors can express their opinion by a vote too ! >> The vote will decide on moving all the source tree (volunteers time >> will the main throttle). >> >> Volunteers will decide on what they move (notification on dev@ is > mandatory). >> The goal is to move simple projects first(scm,surefire, indexer,core, >> wagon etc..) then plugins (except if Kristian want to start with >> plugins immediately :-) ) >> >> Vote open for 72H. >> >> [+1] Move to git scm >> [0] No interest >> [-1] don't move to git (please explain why) >> >> >> Thanks, >> > > > -- > Dennis Lundberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
