It's not up to Lucene and Solr, as it is an Apache Infrastructure thing. It is also unclear as to provenance w/ GIT. So, even for all of GITs benefits, it's a non-starter at this point Foundation wise, so no need for a flamewar at all.
For the record, yes, I deal with dozens of patches at a time through SVN, and I suspect most other committers do too. On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > at least since august 2009 nobody has dared to ask this question, so let's > start a flamewar: > Don't you think, it's time for lucene and solr to switch to GIT? > > And now seriously: > I did the last packaging of SOLR 1.4 for Debian and I intend to continue > doing > so. Since I'm doing the packaging in GIT, I'm asking myself, whether I should > base the packaging GIT repository on the SOLR repo found at git.apache.org? > However if the one from git.a.o is not stable and may crash at any given > time, > this would not be a good idea. > And the best thing for those packagers like me would be of course, if the GIT > repo would be the official one. > > And I wonder, if there are really people using SVN and downloading douzens of > patch files from jira? Isn't it, that everybody already uses git-svn? > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >
