We have already a long thread with lot of things so I won't repeat some questions. I'm +0 to move to GIT but -1 to go outside of the Apache infrastucture.
Emmanuel On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Maven was the first project at Apache to use JIRA and though there was a > great deal of concern/noise about using JIRA it ultimately proved to be a > decent system and now lots of projects are using JIRA. > > I'm not particularly interested in mandating everything in Maven to use GIT > but I would like to pilot the use of GIT as the canonical repository for > Maven 3.x and wanted to see what others thought. > > I believe that GIT is going to be the dominant SCM in the very near future > because the distributed nature is so much more inline with the way OSS > should work. Anyone can get a complete copy of our work and it is much > easier to absorb those changes. There are many examples now on the net > demonstrating projects that have switched to GIT and their communities have > flourished as a result. > > We are also seeing the rise of Java implementations of GIT and to me this > means there are going to be an order of magnitude more developers able to > work on the core system. JGIT, which is being developed primarily by Shawn > Pearce @ Google, is awesome. I actually have been participating in helping > with the build for JGIT and I've been working with Peter Royal to create a > MINA SSHD wrapper around JGIT using JSecurity for authentication and it's so > easy. Peter cranked out a working prototype in 3 hours. This simply is not > possible with C-based systems like Subversion which is essentially a closed > box or generally uninteresting to Java developers. JGIT along with Gerrit > (an awesome code review tool Shawn Pearce is working on) is being used by > the Google Android team and it's working well (I'm meeting with Shawn Pearce > today to chat) so I think we have evidence this works. > > I'd be happy if everyone here wanted to use GIT but I do believe that I > have a better chance of getting people involved with Maven 3.x if I can get > the canonical repository in GIT. > > In the Maven project we set precedent with JIRA and now I would like to do > that with GIT. > > If Apache Infrastructure doesn't want to support this then I feel we can do > the same thing we did with JIRA until they catch up. I think having a > canonical repository at Github is safe, well backed up and maintained and I > don't think we would have to worry about anything there. They have full-time > staff and a slew of engineers so I would even argue that a repository at > Github would be just as safe and well maintained as a Subversion repository > here. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational > and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
