On 13 February 2015 at 13:13, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> Isn't having the mirror on GitHub an effective way to push changes to the > SVN, especially for Apache committers who have project rights to the GitHub > repo? Non-committer pull requests are as complicated either way, it seems > to me, and the GitHub mirror might be superior for that. > no it is not. You cannot push from github to either git or svn at apache. Please be aware that I wrote git, not github. ASF has its own git server, which is mandatory to use. > > I assume the proposal is do-able, but I wonder what kind of disruption > cost there is for current work. > Well it is not only do-able, at the moment about half of all ASF projects work that way. The disruption cost is an infra ticket, and about 3-4 hours downtime. We have today more git commits than svn commits. rgds jan i. > > - Dennis > > Below, I have no opinion, just wonder if these are also relevant > considerations? > > PS: Our current SVN repo is also used for source control of openoffice.org, > So I assume it is not a total give-up. Also, we have SVN tags and branches > that might be problematic, I think. > > PPS: The AOO repo is also a bit larger than what Linus apparently thinks > is cool. This gets back to how could the AOO repo be refactored in order > to modularize the software and simplify (re-)building and staged evolution > of features. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 03:44 > To: dev > Subject: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. > > Hi. > > We have now for a while had a readonly Git copy of our svn repo. > > Should we move to a full git repo, making it easier for new developers to > participate (although it is in no way a guarantee, that it will attract new > people) by lowering the barrier. > > For more documentation on Git at Apache see https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > Moving to a full git repo (see http://git.apache.org/), would mean giving > up our current SVN repo, but history etc. will be available in Git instead. > > The choice is there, and it is just a matter of how people want to work. > > thoughts ? > > rgds > jan I. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
