I personally am pro-GIT too, especially as GITHub would solve part of the hosting issue for OPS4J then. However, I would keep the SVN repo read-only in order not to loose history, committers etc.
Cheers, /peter neubauer COO and Sales, Neo Technology GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > At work we can use GIT if we want to, but there seems to be "huge" > issues regarding running GIT on Windows. I have not put myself into > what the issues are, so not totally sure. > > Does anyone has insights of what this might be?? > > Cheers > Niclas > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Toni Menzel <t...@okidokiteam.com> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> OPS4J currently only allows source code to be hosted on the own ops4j SVN >> repository. >> The benefits of GIT can be read elsewhere, at least you probably have >> heard,it is not the worst thing in OSS history. >> Regarding that topic, i have some questions to the community: >> 1. >> Would you think GIT to be a worthy second SCM for developers at OPS4J ? >> 2. >> Sure, there should be also a trustworthy central point, even though git a >> de-central. >> I would propose Github.com as a valid ops4j git host because of: >> - taking away infrastructure issues from our own servers >> - broaden visibility >> - Github for Organizations sounds just right [1] >> - its just a good tool (web) >> Of cause, this may not be without drawbacks (not 100% about for example >> community integrity). >> Also git does not have the adoption svn has, yet. >> 3. >> How could that work ? >> Well, existing projects can be imported with full history. The svn repo >> should then be removed, a README file pointing to the new repo should >> replace it. >> Documentation,Mailinglist,Issues,CI build, Releases using oss.sonatype.org >> all that will stay the same. >> In order to test what i ask for, there is already a github organization >> account "OPS4J" with some pax projects imported. [2] >> Tell me what you guys think! >> Toni >> [1] http://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations >> [2] http://github.com/ops4j >> -- >> Toni Menzel || http://okidokiteam.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> general mailing list >> general@lists.ops4j.org >> http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> > > > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
