Based on the way this conversation has gone in the past, nearly everyone involved except the project administrator would welcome a migration to git. Even if it was a self-hosted git. But the project admin remained unconvinced the last time the topic came up.
So please, don't re-open this old sore spot. Sword is in SVN, hosted on the crosswire server, and there it shall remain. --Greg On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Matěj Cepl <mc...@cepl.eu> wrote: > On 2016-01-14, 12:50 GMT, Baiju M wrote: >> I know that this project is encouraging new contributors. I can read >> like this here: http://crosswire.org/volunteers/ >> "Currently, the CrossWire Bible Society has a number of projects in >> progress, all open to new volunteers" >> I think moving to Git would be a good choice. > > I think you misunderstood the situation. There were numerous > flamewars on the topic of svn/git migration (browse through > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.literature.sword.devel to see > for yourself), and I think the sitaution is a bit more > complicated than what this page suggests. The powers to be IMHO > actually really do not want new contributors to sword, because > they would have to loose some control over the project. You may > be allowed to contribute a simple bug fix, but the current state > of the sword codebase is good enough for them and there is > really little if any will to change status quo. And SVN serves > as a pretty good barrier for entry of new contributors, so it > will stay here for a long long time. > >> I started collecting few notes here, when we are going for migration, >> this will be helpful. >> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Git_Migration > > See > https://gitlab.com/mcepl/git-svn-tools/blob/master/git-svn-fix-authors > and git-svn-fix-tags in the same repo. The result is > https://gitlab.com/mcepl/sword-tools > > HOwever, as I said, the block for the transition is in people > not in tools. > > Blessings, > > Matěj > > -- > https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mc...@ceplovi.cz > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > > [...] sleep is no substitute for caffeine. > -- Robert Storey in review of Debian > (when describing re-compilation of kernel :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
