On 16.07.2012 14:39, Nick Burch wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Svante Schubert wrote: >> Several Apache projects already have moved to GIT and IMHO it would ease >> our developers (my) life as well. >> For instance I have seen it in Apache (Incubator) Wave, where a branch >> to switch away from ANT to Maven was started on GitHub, which was very >> easy to track. > > Read only git support is very easy to have: > http://git.apache.org/ > (We'd just need to ask for one to be setup for ODF Toolkit) > +1 How do we proceed on that? > With read only git support, anyone can work with git, you can generate > patches etc. Writes would still go via subversion > > A few projects have read-write git support, but it's still a WIP > service. Projects wishing to sign up need to offer up volunteers to > help with the infra and documentation side, so it's quite a bit more > work. (Those requirements will go away when it's finished, but as it's > still WIP projects wanting to use it need to get involved) > If this is the case, I suggest to allow write access for GIT after it has left its WIP service phase. I assume the correct place to ask, would be the apache infrastructure list, right? > > One thing I will highlight with my mentor hat on: > >> Especially as I am working on a Google Summer of Code project with a >> student in China sending patches back and forth. > > I'm a tiny bit concerned by this, and git has the potential to make it > worse. At Apache, everything should be taking place on-list. If the > discussions with the GSOC student were happening on list, then > everyone could offer advice. By having the discussions on a publically > archived list, then people getting involved in future can look back > and learn from the advice and suggestions in the past. Someone having > a question about a feature can see the discussions that lead up to it, > and better understand why the code ended up as it did. > > With all that in mind, I would advise that you try to bring the > discussions back on-list if possible Don't be afraid discussions took place in our JIRA issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-50
Best regards, Svante
