Hey guys, here's an important heads-up! We're going to do the migration to GitHub today. This means we'll no longer be committing code to our Subversion repository. Committers, please hold off on making commits until the migration is done.
I expect it'll be done by late afternoon Chicago time. I'm going to do a dry run first to make sure all goes well, then I'll do the real thing. Here are some random notes about the process -- * Any fork of the existing GitHub repository at https://github.com/django/django (which was a mirror of Subversion) will be broken. That is, it will no longer be able to get changes from upstream. Unfortunately, there's no way around this. But we'll provide some instructions here on django-developers on how to change your forks to use the new upstream repository in such a way that any of your local changes will be preserved. Worst case, you'll just have to generate a patch of your local branch's changes and apply it to a new fork. * One interesting part of this is coming up with a definitive mapping between our old Subversion usernames and names/emails for Git. Brian Rosner and some other folks have done a great job of doing that research -- https://github.com/brosner/django-git-authors/blob/master/authors.txt -- and we'll be using that file to convert committer data during the migration. Basically this means that if you've ever committed to Django, your commits will be associated with your current GitHub account -- as long as your GitHub account is associated with the same email address in that authors file. Due to the way Git works, there's no way of changing this data after the import is done. But we've accounted for everybody except two mysterious people "dcf" and "cell," both of whom were given temporary commit bits during a sprint six years ago. * If you're a Git/GitHub expert and are interested in helping, feel free to join us in #django-dev on Freenode. * Thanks in advance for bearing with us during this process. There will be some pain, but it'll be worth it in the long run. I'm excited! Adrian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
