On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Merlijn van Deen <valhall...@arctus.nl>wrote:
> Hi Chad, > > As we discussed on IRC, my suggestion is the following: > > On 5 June 2013 16:49, Chad Horohoe <choro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Everyone seems to be ok with doing this sooner rather than later, so > > how about we pencil in the date of June 14th (next Friday)? That > > gives us enough time to figure out the parts we don't know as well as > > get notifications out to the relevant places. > > Let's get the conversion working, but without allowing patches in Gerrit. > This allows us to do the migration in a somewhat slower pace, updating > e.g. the nightly generation and making it easier to check if the conversion > works as expected. This also makes it easier to get feedback on the > conversion, > hopefully. > As a timeline, I would suggest to have continuous updates from svn to > git, roughly weekly updates > to the conversion code and a transition period of maybe 6 weeks, > starting next friday? I think it > is realistic as a time frame to update most things that depend on svn. > > This sounds reasonable to me. > Things I think we need to > > 1) Exact repo structure. I think we've gotten a good discussion started > > on the wiki, but I'd like to see more input (and please, feel free to > edit > > it mercilessly, this was all written based on my naïve understanding of > > how you guys work) > > I have added a new proposed structure on the wiki. Basically, I'd like > to formally > separate trunk and rewrite, and to rename them to something like 'compat' > and > 'core'. After discussing it with you and translatewiki people, I think > having i18n as > submodule is the easiest option. > This also looks good. > > > 3) What to do with submodules. A concise list of all the current > externals > > will make this easier. > > I think we should not have the same method with external libraries > svn:external'ed in. I'd be more interested in including a pip-style > requirements.txt, with an optional 'external libraries' zip package. > > Up to you guys. Depending on the size of the dependency and ease of packaging, some things can just be copy+pasted in (with licenses!) as needed. I think we're all in agreement on 2013 committers as being the initial group to have +2. I've updated the wiki to reflect this. -Chad
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