Since this will effect everyone, I will start a 72 hour voting period and discussion thread. Please vote only on the [VOTE] thread so that it will be easy to count. All opinions are welcome.
Marlon On 1/16/14 10:51 PM, Amila Jayasekara wrote: > +1 to move to Git. > It seems it is easy for people to contribute with GIT. (Specially > situations like GSOC). > > Thanks > Thejaka Amila > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Marlon for resurrecting this discussion. Its also timely to the >> transition before GSOC 14 and as we move towards Airavata 1.0. >> >> One thing we have noticed is INFRA support for GIT transition has >> increased over time. Also, the integration with GITHUB, jClouds has fully >> exploited this and now there may be other projects also. So all in all the >> timing is very good and + 1 to move foreword for Airavata. >> >> Suresh >> >> On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Marlon Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all-- >>> >>> We have discussed $subject before for other reasons without much action >>> [0], so I want to bring it up again. Unless the situation has changed >>> recently, Apache's Jira no longer links SVN commit messages to Jira >>> tickets. For background on the issues with SVN, see [1]. This ticket >>> is still unresolved. >>> >>> The general linking of repo commits to Jira tickets through commit >>> comments [2] is a good and virtuous thing. We have lost this in >>> Airavata and need to get it back. This requires moving to Git [3] [4]. >>> >>> What other consequences are there for doing this? Let's please >>> discuss. It will take a bit of time from INFRA to make the conversion, >>> but this doesn't seem to be awful. We need to preserve history if we do >>> this. What else? >>> >>> >>> Thanks-- >>> >>> >>> Marlon >>> >>> [0] https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03881.html >>> >>> [1] https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/SVN-385 >>> >>> [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/svngit2jira.html >>> >>> [3] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ >>> >>> [4] >>> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20text%20~%20%22git%20svn%22 >> >>
