Anyone can already use git locally, there are apache mirrors of most svn projects and many project's committers expose a lot of work-in-progress on github (e.g. karaf)
See e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/general/GitAtApache This is asking for projects that would like to use git instead of svn for their canonical apache repository. While I enthusiastically use git almost all the time including for almost all my geronimo work I think geronimo is too complicated to be a useful guinea pig for git at this point. I think it will take a lot of thought and time to figure out how to divide up the geronimo history into appropriately sized git projects. For instance: - each spec is separately releasable so it's a separate git project. Then we need an aggretator project to build them all at once for convenience. Same for bundles. - the server code was originally under cvs at root and only later moved under server. How will this history make it into git (this is probably solved already but I haven't looked) thanks david jencks On Dec 2, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jay D. McHugh wrote: > Is the idea for this to abandon SVN and move completely over to git? > > Or is it just to add git as a way for folks to manage their local copies of > the source? > > Jay > > On 11/29/2011 03:22 PM, Kevan Miller wrote: >> Forwarding (with permission), in case there's interest within Geronimo >> community. >> >> --kevan >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Joe Schaefer<[email protected]> >>> Subject: Accepting proposals regarding early git adoption >>> Date: November 28, 2011 8:28:17 AM EST >>> To: Apache Infrastructure<[email protected]> >>> Reply-To: Joe Schaefer<[email protected]> >>> >>> While many of you are aware of the ongoing "experiment/alpha test" >>> with git hosting for CouchDB, you may not be aware of the recent >>> members@ discussion about git @ Apache, the result of which is to >>> solicit proposals here for projects interested in adopting git now, >>> rather than after the testing phase is over. >>> >>> Any such projects you participate in should write a brief and civil >>> proposal as to why we should select you for further git testing. >>> Proposals should include statements of interest in assisting with >>> the git hosting codebase and associated jira issues from named >>> individuals on the project. >>> >>> We'll allow the remainder of the week to collect proposals before >>> deciding on who gets to go next. >>> >>
