Great Job. This will make easier for a lot of people to be involved on the project.
On Friday, April 27, 2012 10:08:09 PM UTC-5, Adrian Holovaty wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Adrian Holovaty <adr...@holovaty.com> > wrote: > > We're going to do the migration to GitHub today. This means we'll no > > longer be committing code to our Subversion repository. Committers, > > please hold off on making commits until the migration is done. > > OK, it's live! > > https://github.com/django/django > > A few quick points (though this definitely deserves a more in-depth > writeup): > > * I renamed the old (mirror) repository to > https://github.com/django/django-old. We had talked about deleting it > outright to avoid confusion, but I realized at the last minute that > doing so would have deleted all the pull requests. I didn't want to > throw all of that out, and I think we can figure out a way to use > those pull requests in the new repository. > > * I only migrated trunk (now called "master"), rather than including > all of the branches. This was the result of a bunch of discussion on > IRC with Brian R., et al. The thinking is that it kept the migration a > lot cleaner/simpler, and we can always add branches later. Of course, > we'll need to create the latest release branches. Otherwise, we can > consider the SVN branches on an individual basis. > > * As expected, all forks of the old repository are now broken. Can > somebody volunteer to write some documentation on how to upgrade your > old fork to use the new upstream repo (rebase? simple patch?)? > > * We're going to keep the Subversion repository around indefinitely, > but it'll no longer be updated. > > * We're going to keep using Trac for tickets, but pull requests on > GitHub are also welcome. > > * Clearly there are lots of bits of process that need to be updated > now, from the django-updates mailing list to our "contributing" > documentation, etc. We'll take care of all of that in the coming days, > and we should all expect some degree of confusion and unsettlement in > the community. That's totally fine, and we'll get through it. :-) > > * Finally, big thanks to the folks on IRC today who helped me through > the process and contributed good ideas. > > I'm planning to write up a blog post on how the process went, for the > benefit of the five open-source projects still using Subversion. > > Adrian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/3AYxf2T_uFgJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
