pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Dear all, I've received a request (see below) to move the packaging of solr to a git repository. Solr is currently maintained in the pkg-java subversion repository. In my opinion, this is as is should be: pkg-java is a team effort, and the results of that effort are maintained in the pkg-java

Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi Jan-Pascal, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jan-Pascal van Bestjanpas...@vanbest.org wrote: Any thoughts from the team? I would really love to convert out svn repo to git and even volunteer in doing the actual conversion. BUT! The number of active team members is really too low. I think

Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Torsten Wernertwer...@debian.org wrote: Hi Jan-Pascal, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jan-Pascal van Bestjanpas...@vanbest.org wrote: Any thoughts from the team? I would really love to convert out svn repo to git and even volunteer in doing the actual

Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, - Why GIT and not HG, BZR, ... - Bzr is crap, so Hg remains - http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-usage - KDE, Gnome, Kernel, freedesktop.org, Fedora, Perl5, GNU auto..., Ruby, YUI, hosting at sourceforge ... - would GIT make it harder to get new contributors? - It would lower the

Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jan-Pascal van Bestjanpas...@vanbest.org wrote: I've received a request (see below) to move the packaging of solr to a git repository. Solr is currently maintained in the pkg-java subversion repository. In my opinion, this is as is should be: pkg-java

Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)

2009-08-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: I've received a request (see below) to move the packaging of solr to a git repository. Just FYI: I use git+TopGit for packaging testng, you may debcheckout it if you want to have a look. Works pretty well so far.