Hi Moritz,
I'm no expert here, but it sounds like this would make things easier for
our developers and there are no disadvantages/costs from it.
If that is the case I would support this,
Jon
On 16 April 2015 at 21:43, Moritz Hoffmann <antig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> I'm not suggesting moving the project because we have a well established
> infrastructure on Sourceforge. Providing a mirror would be for the sole
> purpose of making development for non-ooRexx members easier. SVN has no
> built-in notion for brnaches, it's just directories in the repository. With
> git, you can clone a repository and do whatever you want to do inside,
> creating your own branches if you want. Of course, changes would still need
> to go through the SVN master, but it's possible to export changes from git
> as a patch and use our procedure to integrate those patches in SVN. Also,
> most people do not have access to the SVN repo so they can't create
> sandboxes to play with the code while having a backup copy. That can easily
> be solved with git.
>
> Best,
> Moritz
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:16 PM CVBruce <cvbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you are suggesting here. To me a mirror site is a copy
>> of the main site, and therefore updates would still have go to the main
>> site. If SourceForge remained as the main site you would still have to use
>> SVN to apply your changes to the source code.
>>
>> If you are talking about moving the entire project to GitHub, then my
>> question is how do we move all the infrastructure, such as mail lists, bug
>> reports, and binary file distribution.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Bruce
>> On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Moritz Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>> > Dear all,
>> > I think it would be a good idea to have an official mirror of the
>> ooRexx main tree on github as a git repository. Working with git for a long
>> time now, I figured it's much more user friendly than SVN. Also, having an
>> official mirror might allow us to more easily reach mode people -
>> Sourceforge doesn't seem to be the open-source hoster #1 anymore. We could
>> follow the approach other projects have taken: FreeBSD is mirroring their
>> tree to git while development continues on their SVN repo. There will be no
>> changes in the git mirror that are not in the SVN tree ensuring consistency.
>> >
>> > Please let me know what you think. If there's agreement I'd take
>> responsibility and setup the mirroring task, and add a github team for
>> ooRexx.
>> >
>> > Moritz
>> >
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