I want to see all these +1's contribute to the Wiki
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Owen Winkler <[email protected]> wrote: > This weekend I will attempt to locate or write a script that moves all of > our core Trac issues to Github, and automates the process of obtaining > nightly archives of the source. > > The svn repo url for core will either be shut down or redirect to the svn > mirror on Github, through which you can check out projects from Github via > svn as read-only. Users that use svn to update blogs should need only > execute a simple `svn switch` to continue as they have been. > > We're going to need time to work out what to do with the -extras repo, but > I expect that ultimately those projects will also be available via Github. > This will not happen this week. > > > I realize that there is still a lot of uncertainty about what using git and > Github means. Everyone is likely to have questions, but trust me when I say > that git is just another SCM tool. At worst, you have to learn a few > different commands. At best, we reap great rewards from the collaborative > coding features that Github offers, gain efficiency from the features that > git has that aren't present in svn, and release some of our otherwise more > prolific contributors from frequent server maintenance tasks. I firmly > believe that this move will benefit the project. > > > Please +1 this thread if you're in support. If you still have reservations > to the point where you can't +1 the thread, please ask specific, positive > questions that we can help answer. We should only delay this process if > there is a credible reason not to move the core repo before the weekend - > let's not let bureaucracy hinder innovation. > > I'm hoping that a couple of folks familiar with git can step up and draft a > wiki page that outlines some of the changes from svn to git, specific to our > project (using our URLs and likely tasks to get things moving) and link to > some good external resources for learning git from an svn user's > perspective. > > Thanks, > Owen > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to habari-dev-unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/habari-dev <http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
