Hi Mukul, A giant plus for GitBox is integration with GitHub. If someone provides a PR on GitHub, you can merge it _directly_ from GitHub's UI and have that change reflected immediately to GitBox. Otherwise, if you do the mirroring that other projects do/have done between Svn and GitHub, there is no such feature. We migrated all of the (active) Apache Commons repositories to GitHub and it has been very successful IMO. This make it MUCH easier to interact with contributors, it is also much easier to review patches in the GitHub UI than it is looking at a .patch or .diff file. There are only pluses IMO. The trick is getting there... which I'm not yet, I'm hoping to get help on the INFRA ticket...
Gary Gary On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:22 AM Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gary, > I'm wondering if you'd like the idea that, shall we revert to and > retain Xalan's source repository to SVN? GitBox is not mandatory as of now > for use by Apache projects. For retaining SVN for Xalan, I guess you'd need > to discard effort spent until now for trying moving Xalan to GitBox, and > that may sound little annoying to you I guess. > > Xerces is on SVN, and I believe Xerces is closely related to Xalan. I > think, as of now Xerces has no plans (I've not seen any discussion about > this on Xerces lists, other than one email from you on one of Xerces's list > few weeks ago suggesting Xerces's move to GitBox) to moving to GitBox. > > If you're certain to move Xalan to GitBox, then its fine. I'm with you for > that, and I believe that others would also have no objections. > > I'm also curious to know that, GitBox other than an alternative to SVN at > Apache, what would be GitBox's other advantages for Xalan? I can see that, > moving Xalan to GitBox would allow Xalan community to use GitHub (which is > hugely popular) as well, as a source repository. > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:02 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This failed last night: >> >> ggregory@ggregory-VirtualBox:~/share/xalan-c$ svn2git >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf --username ggregory --authors >> ./authors.txt --verbose --trunk /xalan/c/trunk --branches /xalan/c/branches >> --tags /xalan/c/tags >> Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --username='ggregory' >> --no-metadata --trunk='/xalan/c/trunk' --tags='/xalan/c/tags' >> --branches='/xalan/c/branches' https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf >> Running command: git config --local --get user.name >> Running command: git config --local svn.authorsfile ./authors.txt >> Running command: git svn fetch >> Author: (no author) not defined in ./authors.txt file >> >> command failed: >> git svn fetch >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Yes, I have authors.txt in the current folder and it has the same content >> I used to convert https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/pmc >> successfully. >> >> Thank you, >> Gary >> > > > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi >
