All, Just reminding all developers of this pending vote on whether DSpace codebase migrates entirely to GitHub. We'll call this vote on the dspace-devel listserv on or around Weds, Feb 29 (as next week we'll be holding the aforementioned DSpace Developers Virtual Summit all week long).
More information on the proposed move to GitHub is in the initial email below (which was send to this list in mid-January). In the meantime, if anyone has any questions about this possible codebase migration or wishes to express concerns/thoughts, please let us know on dspace-devel. - Tim (on behalf of the DSpace Committers) On 1/12/2012 4:29 PM, Tim Donohue wrote: > All, > > In yesterday's DSpace Developers Meeting > (http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-01-11), those in > attendance took some time to (re-)discuss a possible migration of the > DSpace codebase from SVN to GitHub. This has been a recent "hot topic" > in weekly developer meetings as more and more of us become familiar with > Git/GitHub (often through other projects or local development > practices). Despite strong support from some developers/committers, > there are many more who are still "on the fence" at this time. > > During yesterday's meeting, we came to the conclusion that we need to > come to a final decision soon on whether to migrate to GitHub (if we are > going to do so before the next DSpace release). > > Therefore, a public vote is scheduled for Weds, Feb 29, 2012. We feel > this will give us all more time to play with Git/GitHub over the next > month and a half, so that we can have an informed discussion and come to > a final decision. > > *ALL DEVELOPERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO TRY OUT GITHUB BEFORE FEB 29 AND > PROVIDE YOUR FEEDBACK* > > We encourage *everyone* to provide their honest feedback on this > listserv, so that we can better gauge support or lack thereof. Please > ask questions! Feel free to act as a "devil's advocate" if you see fit. > We want to be sure we all are thinking about the implications of a > migration from SVN to GitHub! > > For those who are new to Git/GitHub, here's some resources that you may > find useful (if others know of more resources, please feel free to share > them): > > * Peter Dietz has setup a DSpace mirror repository in GitHub already > (this is a synced copy of the code in SVN), which you can fork & play > with immediately. See the documentation for it at: > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/wiki > > * More info from Peter on how to Track your DSpace Code with Git: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Tracking+your+source+code+with+Git > > > * An intro to Git for folks familiar with SVN: > http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html > > * The Fedora developers have already switched to GitHub and compiled a > nice list of Git resources on their wiki: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Git+Resources > > * In addition, the Fedora developers have a very useful "Quick Start > Guide" and "Best Practices" (many of which are not necessarily Fedora > specific): > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Git+Guidelines+and+Best+Practices > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Git+Quick+Start+Guide > > We hope to hear your questions, concerns & honest feedback in the coming > weeks! On February 29, we will hold a final discussion of this migration > during our Developers Meeting. I will then call a public vote on this > topic via this listserv. Based on our DSpace voting procedures > (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Developer+Voting+Procedures), > if a majority are in favor of a migration to GitHub then we will start > the migration shortly thereafter. If a majority are opposed, then our > primary codebase will remain in SVN. > > If you have questions, concerns or feedback, please let us know! > > - Tim > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
