@Christian I'm interested in helping the CouchDB guys write Git guidelines for ASF - if it's a step towards ASF adopting Git. Thanks for mentioning this!
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz < bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Laurent Hasson <lhas...@rim.com> wrote: > > ...I believe many in the PhoneGap community are/were under the impression > > that Git would remain the project's repo even as we move to Apache, thus > > the confusion/questions on this thread... > > Let's clarify this: it is currently a requirement for all ASF projects > to use svn.apache.org as their code repository. > > As Jukka suggests, Callback being in incubation can continue to use > github for some time, but that prevents the project from graduating to > a top-level project, and probably even from making ASF releases (as > the ASF releases source code, which has to be hosted on our > infrastructure so that we control it). > > git.apache.org provides "bridges" that allows committers to work with > Git, up to a point. > > The CouchDB project is currently using Git as their main repository, > as an experiment which might result in ASF projects being allowed to > use either Git or Subversion in the future. We don't know when that > might happen. I personally hope that happens soon, but that's just my > opinion. > > -Bertrand >
