I think I speak for all the other mrunit committers when I say we're happy to be the guinea pigs on this.
On May 6, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/05/11 18:52, Todd Lipcon wrote: >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Eric Yang<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Git is powerful in maintaining different branch of the source code. >>> However, it will only work if the entire community is willing to move to >>> git. Maintaining svn and git hybrid, is a time consuming task that we are >>> paying in full price. Hadoop community should work smarter for the source >>> control. What do people think about fully adopting git instead of svn? >>> >> >> +1 for Git as a tool. But using git makes it even _more_ important that we >> have a clearly defined release process that outlines which branches are >> meant to be released as official artifacts, and what the inclusion criteria >> for those branches should be. >> > > I'm +0.9995 for git: some bits I like, some bits I don't (it's awful for > binary data). And you need more than just a release process locked down, you > need the developers understanding following a good process. If you have > written down process docs there, I'd love to see them. > > apache infrastructure are discussing git -what would be best would be to > start with a non-critical project, such as one or more of the moved contrib > projects (like MR-Unit), so we can see that it, gerrit, etc work well within > the Hadoop developer world. > > >
