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 > > -- > Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de > AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ > > Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 > Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 > Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 > > AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln > AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow > > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
