On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Gabriel Roldán <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, so this is my concern wrt community modules: IMHO the whole concept > of having community modules in the mainstream svn repo is obsolete. > > I don't quite remember if we already discussed it, but for how long are > we going to keep tied to svn?
Good question. I'd say, for a little while longer. Here is the rationale. I know that many (most?) core developers are using the git-svn bridge nowadays and git full fledged in some project or the other, so moving GS to GitHub would probably be a good move for the most active committers. At the same time community area is about to get more people involved. Most of the times I go and propose git usage to a customer the answer is "no, too complex", and a number of people that tried it after my enthusiastic descriptions reported us that "they hate it". git-svn for me has been nothing short of fantastic so far, had a bumpier ride with full git but I feel the advantages overcome the shortcomings. For me. I'm however quite worried that forcing people to use git will add to the existing entry barrier, along with complex code and the use of Maven, which like it or not, did not achieve Ant widespread usage and mindshare. Long story short, I feel that moving to git would be natural for the core developers, but would actually hamper potential contributors of community modules with one more steep learning curve to overcome. That said, I'm not against moving to git if others feel like it would be an improvement for the wider community. > Second concern perhaps of a more immediate solution is there seems to > ~43 folders under community/ some of them look like empty (control-flow, > performanceChecker), some may be obsolete, so we might want to go > through some sort of clean up round? Fully agree, we could simply do a "raise your hand" call and see if there is anyone still caring about any of the modules in community, and delete those that do not get any vote. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
