I asked INFRA a while back about this. What I understood from their answer is that:
git-wip-us are Apache-hosted GIT repos that are *not* integrated with GitHub. gitbox essentially offers an integration of GitHub with the ASF infrastructure, i.e. mirroring of the GitHub repo on the ASF servers, sending commit notifications to the ASF project's mailing lists, hooking up with Jira, etc. That allows to make use of the social coding features from GitHub while meeting the provenance tracking requirements of the ASF. I believe that people adopting Git at ASF nowadays probably all use the gitbox approach. Cheers, -- Richard > On 16. Oct 2018, at 21:00, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > > For working with apache-writable git repos, there are two conflicting sets of > instructions: > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ and > https://reference.apache.org/committer/git > > These say to use quite different URLs for cloning from, if you're a committer. > e.g. > > (git-wip-us): git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/reponame.git > (for committers) > (git-wip-us): git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/reponame.git > (for non-committers) > (reference): git clone https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/reponame.git > (reference): git clone http://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/reponame.git > > What's the meaning of gitbox vs git-wi-us? > > I see uima-uimafit under the gitbox address, but not under the git-wip-us one. > > -Marshall
