On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:05:43AM +0200, Jeroen Asselman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Last year the discussion was started to move to git. We have decided to 
> continue with this process.  
> 
> Actions involved:
> 
> Create a valid authors file so all current and previous commiters on
> gtk-gnutella's source code are listed correctly. I will send a
> separate mail containing all the svn usernames we have now so that
> each person can indicate how he wants to be listed as an author in
> git.

I never had svn access, I assume patches from email are just
attributed in the comments?

> Place the migrated git sources online for you to check to see if
> anything did go wrong.

I've been sporadically syncing and pushing to:

https://github.com/stsquad/gtk-gnutella

However I assume your going to re-run the conversion anyway as you'll
be mapping authors from svn to git
 
> Prepare 0.97.1 to handle new (extended) version numbers. In SVN we
> use the revision number in SVN releases to detect if there is a new
> SVN version. This is a functionality we want to keep. When we switch
> to git we will still use the 0.97-revnumber like scheme, however it
> will be in the format of 0.97.1-number-gsha1abbr.

Sounds good.

> Move our sourcecode to github. Those who have worked with git knows
> one of its strengths is the ease of branching and forking. With
> github the forking and remerging progress is made very easy.
> Hopefully this will also attract more people to contribute due to
> the easy access to the code.

Cool. I hope so, certainly it lowers the barrier to submission and
processing requests.

> Other project related stuff (the mailing lists, releases and our
> <snip>

Looking forward to it. I haven't been called to use GTKG much recently
but I like to keep in touch.

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