Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 18:51, Simon Phipps wrote: >... >> It is not a question of benefit of the doubt.  Anybody who wants to >> make a difference is welcome to participate.  The operative word, >> however, is "participate". > > Help me understand here, Sam. Are you asserting that you do not cons

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
Sam, help me learn the system here. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > > Whether I said it poorly or not, any statement along the lines of > "some group needs this" without providing the resources to make it > happen is not going to make it happen. Greg has made clear that the

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 14.06.2011 22:45, Sam Ruby wrote: Whether I said it poorly or not, any statement along the lines of "some group needs this" without providing the resources to make it happen is not going to make it happen. That statement is true no matter what the group is, including groups that are *within*

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 14/06/2011 18:18, Simon Phipps wrote: > My main reason for being here is to have "a foot in both camps" and make sure that there's someone to bring in TDF people whenever there's scope >>> to collaborate and draw the overall

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Ross Gardler
On 14/06/2011 18:18, Simon Phipps wrote: My main reason for being here is to have "a foot in both camps" and make sure that there's someone to bring in TDF people whenever there's scope to collaborate and draw the overall OOo community together. I'll simply note that those people with a "f

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Ross Gardler
On 14/06/2011 17:33, Mathias Bauer wrote: Starting with svn won't set anything in stone. Perhaps we should think about our usage of svn now so that at least a later conversion to git will be easy and without losses. We should be able to do that. This attitude fits very well to the ASF way of d

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Ross Gardler
On 14/06/2011 17:05, Simon Phipps wrote: I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. See my reply to Gregs mail in this thread a moment ago. I think Sam is saying the same thing. Ross

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Ross Gardler
On 14/06/2011 16:53, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:47, Simon Phipps wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: I know that many people also have concerns with potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later time. Not here and now. With re

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
On 06/14/2011 05:22 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:08, Simon Phipps wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Do you see any serious problems if the code will go into svn in the first step (which

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:28, Mathias Bauer > wrote: > > - start with a git repo from the beginning > > As stated elsewhere, this is not available right now. There are the > technical issues, and I know that many people also have concerns wit

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > From: Simon Phipps > > No URL, sorry, I still haven't found the archives. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/ > > (syncing happens on an hourly basis). > Great, thanks! (I'd been checking that URL regularl

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: Simon Phipps > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 1:18:30 PM > Subject: Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals) > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > On Tue,

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mathias Bauer >wrote: > > > >> if you talk about "community concerns", you should be more specific > about > >> which parts of the community are involved

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 14.06.2011 18:48, Simon Phipps wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mathias Bauerwrote: if you talk about "community concerns", you should be more specific about which parts of the community are involved here. Actually that was Sam's phrase, better ask him :-) Sure, but it was you wh

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > >> if you talk about "community concerns", you should be more specific about >> which parts of the community are involved here. > > Actually that was Sam's phrase, better ask him :-) Do

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > if you talk about "community concerns", you should be more specific about > which parts of the community are involved here. > Actually that was Sam's phrase, better ask him :-) My main reason for being here is to have "a foot in both camps"

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Dennis, On 14.06.2011 18:05, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: My impression, and it is only an impression, is that SVN is more transparent and the web interfaces for it are valuable as part of that. One problem with how I see git/hg being used is that work happens substantially out of view and the

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
Simon, On 14.06.2011 17:47, Simon Phipps wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: I know that many people also have concerns with potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later time. Not here and now. With respect, that was the same phrase used to def

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > > >> I know that many people also have concerns with > >> potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later > >>

RE: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 08:09 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals) On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier > wrote: > > > > Do you see any serious

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> I know that many people also have concerns with >> potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later >> time. Not here and now. > > With respect, that was the same ph

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:47, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > >> I know that many people also have concerns with >> potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later >> time. Not here and now. >> > > With respect, that was the same ph

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > I know that many people also have concerns with > potential community issues. But that is all a discussion for a later > time. Not here and now. > With respect, that was the same phrase used to defer discussion during the proposal process. Lea

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
Below, I will refer to the information from: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SCM_Migration#Evaluating_the_SCM_candidates.2C_Metrics (thanks to Meeks for pointing me there) On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:28, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > From our own experience the biggest problem with svn was

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
From our own experience the biggest problem with svn was merging of branches. We often had features that took several months of development time. We didn't want to commit incomplete or buggy code to our master, so we created feature branches for them and called them "child workspaces" (cws)

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:24, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > >> Simon Phipps wrote: >> > One factor we need to consider is making it easy to collaborate with >> > peer/downstream projects, per the podling proposal. LibreOffice has >> > imported

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:22, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: >> One factor we need to consider is making it easy to collaborate with >> peer/downstream projects, per the podling proposal. LibreOffice has >> imported all the code into Git > > I'm not a LibreOffice developer, and the

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: > > One factor we need to consider is making it easy to collaborate with > > peer/downstream projects, per the podling proposal. LibreOffice has > > imported all the code into Git > > I'm not a LibreOffice developer, and

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:08, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier >> wrote: >> > >> > Do you see any serious problems if the code will go into svn in the >> > first step (which will last for a while)?

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simon Phipps wrote: > One factor we need to consider is making it easy to collaborate with > peer/downstream projects, per the podling proposal. LibreOffice has > imported all the code into Git I'm not a LibreOffice developer, and the code I contributed to OpenOffice.org is outside core, but I bel

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier > wrote: > > > > Do you see any serious problems if the code will go into svn in the > > first step (which will last for a while)? > > I'd like to rephrase that question: does anybody here ha

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > > Do you see any serious problems if the code will go into svn in the > first step (which will last for a while)? I'd like to rephrase that question: does anybody here have any credible alternate proposal? To be credible, requires no

Re: Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Christian Grobmeier
ASF Infra provides GIT for readonly: http://git.apache.org/ This might already help for some people. As far as I know the GIT writing is in the makings but finished. I heard it will take another good while to become truth. I don't want to start a flame war - but it has been said ASF SVN can handl

Subversion & Git (was: Proposed short term goals)

2011-06-14 Thread Simon Phipps
One factor we need to consider is making it easy to collaborate with peer/downstream projects, per the podling proposal. LibreOffice has imported all the code into Git, and I'd assume that downstream projects like RedOffice are using either Mercurial or Git as well. While SVN is obviously the Apach