Dear Bioconductor Developers,

Big news! We are planning to migrate from SVN to git. This is a major change in 
our version control model. We understand this may be disruptive to some 
developers and are working to make the transition as smooth as possible.  The 
end goal is to provide a versioning system that supports both robust code 
development as well as community coding.

Git has really emerged as a modern replacement to SVN, and is widely used in 
the bioinformatics community. Many Bioconductor packages are maintained 
primarily on git and perhaps a majority of the commits to our SVN repository 
are from git. Git encourages broad community participation in development of 
both Bioconductor infrastructure and contributed software / experiment data 
packages. Recent developers of new packages have been using git and Github for 
their package development, and this has worked very well for both developers 
and core team reviewers.

We are producing robust scripts to create git repositories of each package in 
our current SVN repository. The git repositories contain the complete commit 
history for 'devel', and for all releases as branches. Details for interaction 
with our git server, including the role of github, are still being finalized.

More information about the specifics of the transition plan will be announced 
in the middle of March. We anticipate a fully functional 'beta' version 
available for broad testing immediately after the next Bioconductor release, in 
mid-April. Once we are confident in the new repositories and work flows, we 
will switch to an exclusively git-based version control model; SVN repositories 
will remain available as a 'read only' resource for as long as is feasible.

We welcome all feedback during this test period; please respond to this post 
with comments, or contact 
nitesh.tur...@roswellpark.org<mailto:nitesh.tur...@roswellpark.org> directly.

Best,

Nitesh Turaga
Bioconductor Core Team


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