Hi Gary,
You've articulated very well, advantages of GitBox and GitHub for
Xalan. My +1 for this move.
I'm very sure, you'd (possibly with support from Apache infra, and looking
at suggestions from Bill as well) be successfully able to move Xalan's SVN
repos to GitBox.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
