Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2013-01-02 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 30 December 2012 22:34, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/30 Dr. Trigon dr.tri...@surfeu.ch to git. For me the most important thing would be that finally somebody is able to build a VCS that is not that bad that everybody has to replace it after 5 years again...(CVS, SVN, git,

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2013-01-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
In the past couple of days I was reworking my mediawiki dev setup, and I think it might be useful to the script runners/writers as well - an auto-configured (vagrant) linux virtualbox without gui and with all dev files residing on the host. All dev files reside on the host and are simply mapped

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-30 Thread Bináris
2012/12/30 Dr. Trigon dr.tri...@surfeu.ch to git. For me the most important thing would be that finally somebody is able to build a VCS that is not that bad that everybody has to replace it after 5 years again...(CVS, SVN, git, next candidate?) (how should it explain this to my children...?!

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-27 Thread Merlijn van Deen
Responding to both Maarten and Yuri because of a large overlap in their opinions ;-) On 26 December 2012 16:45, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: As a consequence, the WMF also wants to stop running their svn server - which is the server we are using. No planned date yet so we don't

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-27 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
So - yes, there are certainly advantages in moving to gerrit. But, compared to github, the documentation is much less clear. However, maybe the right response is 'fix the docs' instead of using github :-) Agree - lets fix gerrit docs and benefit the entire MW infrastructure. And I think it is

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-27 Thread info
Some remarks from me. Sorry I am not quite familar with git/gerrit vcs as well as svn. I just use these things as long they work for me. I use tortoiseSVN for the svn repository and I played a bit with tortoiseGit and mw repository samples. I guess the only thing I need for git repository is

[Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-26 Thread Merlijn van Deen
Hello all, As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has moved most Mediawiki (MW)-related repositories from svn version control to git + gerrit. As a consequence, the WMF also wants to stop running their svn server - which is the server we are using. Now the question is: where do we

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-26 Thread Strainu
2012/12/26 Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl: Hello all, As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has moved most Mediawiki (MW)-related repositories from svn version control to git + gerrit. As a consequence, the WMF also wants to stop running their svn server - which is the

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-26 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hoi Merlijn, Op 26-12-2012 13:28, Merlijn van Deen schreef: Hello all, As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has moved most Mediawiki (MW)-related repositories from svn version control to git + gerrit. As a consequence, the WMF also wants to stop running their svn server - which is

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-26 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
SVN - I think we should be moving away from it. If we switch to a host that has specialized GIT+SVN support, it will be hard to move away to another provider that doesn't have elaborate SVN features. Agree with Martin re moving closer to API MW in general. Hosting on MW gives us a very different

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] svn migration

2012-12-26 Thread Bináris
I don't know git and gerrit and can't compare the possibilities. All I would like that if we have to move someone write a step-by-step manual for newbies. -- Bináris ___ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org