Subversion repos are mirrored on GitHub as well; it's just more work
involved merging pull requests via svn unless you're already using git-svn
locally (at which point I ask, why even use svn in the first place?)

On 16 March 2017 at 21:56, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Now that the incubator vote has passed we can formally begin the process
> of moving the project back to Logging Services. Frankly, there isn’t much
> to do.  This list is going to be merged into d...@logging.apache.org along
> with all the other sub-projects while the users list remains dedicated to
> log4cxx. The web site is already under logging.apache.org.
>
> As far as I can see the only thing that needs to be done is to move the
> source code.  It is up to this community to decide whether to stay with svn
> or move to git.  My personal experience is that you will get more
> contributions if you move to git. People seem to really like being able to
> fork the project on GitHub and send in pull requests. At least, that is my
> experience with Log4j.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ralph
>
> On Mar 2, 2017, at 5:41 AM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de>
> wrote:
>
> Guten Tag Roland Uuesoo,
> am Donnerstag, 2. März 2017 um 13:06 schrieben Sie:
>
> When migrating to GIT, the commit history is retained, there is no
> point keeping the old SVN repository.
>
>
> Of course there might be a point, e.g. for people using svn:externals
> to integrate log4cxx into their project. This is a quite common setup
> and would keep working if the old code base would be kept e.g.
> read-only or would be mirrored or whatever.
>
> On the other hand, the Apache GIT-repos are mirrored to GitHub and
> GitHub provides a SVN bridge. So one could really delete the sources
> from the SVN and people seeing things failing could be advised to use
> the GitHub SVN-bridge instead. I'm doing that already for e.g. Apache
> Wicket and it somewhat works, currently even better than some months
> ago, where I often faced timeouts I didn't face with "native" GitHub
> repos and their SVN-bridge.
>
> That's why Im asking, one simply needs to know/decide. I could
> perfectly live with the second approach.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Thorsten Schöning
>
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