We recently asked INFRA for two new repositories: hbase-operator-tools and hbase-connectors. INFRA noted that this is a self-service task and forwarded us to https://gitbox.apache.org.
After setting up the repos, it was plain that gitbox repos are not like our git-view mirror of svn repos as we currently have; they are connected to github and all github facilities such as PR support and pushing from github are supported (compare https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git or our thirdparty repo https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase-thirdparty.git to the new hbase-connectors repositories, available here, https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase-connectors.git;a=tree, but also via github here https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors). I asked Infra (Chris Lambertus) what's the story, how it relates to our current git: "Sure you can have repos on both systems (git-wip/svn and GitBox), as long as they are different. For instance you wouldn't want https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git AND https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hbase.git (which doesn't exist, just using for an example). If you'd like to consolidate everything onto GitBox, then get a vote on your ML and submit a ticket with the vote results as well as any detail. Eventually, we'll be migrating everything to GitBox from git-wip. "GitBox enables writeable GitHub repos, so you can utilize GitHub's tools (PRs, merging, etc) while still being able to use GitBox as a remote." This is interesting. In HBASE-21002, a few of us have 'fun' playing with the available facility which includes comments in github echoing as comments in JIRA. As our Sean Busbey notes up in one of the repo-creation JIRAs, as a community, we don't "support" PRs as part of our current flow. With our new repos, we have an opportunity to play with the new tooling without having to change core behaviors. If we like what we see, we might want to consider amending our patch-attached-to-JIRA axiom at some point down the road (or of asking to move git core to gitbox sooner rather than later). St.Ack
