On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:08, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Christian Grobmeier >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Do you see any serious problems if the code will go into svn in the >> > first step (which will last for a while)? >> >> I'd like to rephrase that question: does anybody here have any >> credible alternate proposal? To be credible, requires not just an >> outline of a plan, but actual volunteers with a demonstrated ability >> to follow through. >> > > If Git was going to be available at Apache in the future I am pretty sure > the LibreOffice developers would consider temporarily hosting a Git > repository for developers here to use.
That is unworkable right now. Git has been "in the works" for several *years* now. We cannot rely on it appearing at any given point in time. Certainly not by the time that we want to release an Apache OOo. You also have authentication problems between Apache and the LO installation. You also have code guarantee problems (the ASF guarantees that third parties have not tampered with its development). Seriously. If it was "that easy", then Infra would have just set up a git repository and be done with it. But it isn't "that easy". There are thousands of open source projects using Subversion. And there are downstream users of those projects that do not use Subversion. I fail to see how this one is different. I also fail to see any credible reason that Subversion cannot handle the development here at Apache. Cheers, -g
