Ok, I'm good with it. Frankly, before I was a committer, I didn't find it all that hard to pull from the SVN, and create patches. If this makes it easier, then I'm all for it.
Bruce On Apr 16, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Moritz Hoffmann wrote: > Hi Bruce, > I'm not suggesting moving the project because we have a well established > infrastructure on Sourceforge. Providing a mirror would be for the sole > purpose of making development for non-ooRexx members easier. SVN has no > built-in notion for brnaches, it's just directories in the repository. With > git, you can clone a repository and do whatever you want to do inside, > creating your own branches if you want. Of course, changes would still need > to go through the SVN master, but it's possible to export changes from git as > a patch and use our procedure to integrate those patches in SVN. Also, most > people do not have access to the SVN repo so they can't create sandboxes to > play with the code while having a backup copy. That can easily be solved with > git. > > Best, > Moritz > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:16 PM CVBruce <cvbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what you are suggesting here. To me a mirror site is a copy of > the main site, and therefore updates would still have go to the main site. > If SourceForge remained as the main site you would still have to use SVN to > apply your changes to the source code. > > If you are talking about moving the entire project to GitHub, then my > question is how do we move all the infrastructure, such as mail lists, bug > reports, and binary file distribution. > > Yours, > > Bruce > On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Moritz Hoffmann wrote: > > > Dear all, > > I think it would be a good idea to have an official mirror of the ooRexx > > main tree on github as a git repository. Working with git for a long time > > now, I figured it's much more user friendly than SVN. Also, having an > > official mirror might allow us to more easily reach mode people - > > Sourceforge doesn't seem to be the open-source hoster #1 anymore. We could > > follow the approach other projects have taken: FreeBSD is mirroring their > > tree to git while development continues on their SVN repo. There will be no > > changes in the git mirror that are not in the SVN tree ensuring consistency. > > > > Please let me know what you think. If there's agreement I'd take > > responsibility and setup the mirroring task, and add a github team for > > ooRexx. > > > > Moritz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT > > Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard > > Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises > > http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ > > source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF_______________________________________________ > > Oorexx-devel mailing list > > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT > Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard > Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises > http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ > source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF_______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT > Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard > Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises > http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ > source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF_______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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