On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Chad,
>
> In December, I think the consensus was to move to Gerrit [1] -
> basically with the goal to keep it as close as possible to mediawiki,
> hopefully also easing contributions (to mw for pwb developers and vice
> versa). I have put some initial work into the migration (see
> https://github.com/pywikibot/svn2git ), but I have not had the time to
> smooth out the wrinkles.
>
> Will you be at the Hackathon next week? I think this would be a good
> topic to discuss there.
>
> Merlijn
>
> [1]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2012-December/007657.html
>
> On 15 May 2013 01:37, Chad Horohoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The time has finally come upon us--I'm finally moving forward with
> shutting
> > down SVN and making it a read-only service. As Pywikipedia is the only
> > consumer of SVN anymore, I wanted to reach out to the community to find
> > out what everyone wants to do. As I see it, there's three courses of
> action
> > that Pywikipedia can go in:
> >
> > 1) Move to Gerrit
> > 2) Move to Git elsewhere (Github, Google Code, etc)
> > 3) Move to some other SVN service
> >
> > I'm more than willing to help with any of these choices--the first two
> would
> > involve a conversion of the history to Git, along with importing it to
> the
> > destination of choice. Staying with SVN is also potentially possible, I'm
> > more than  happy to provide full SVN dumps if someone's wanting to setup
> > that service elsewhere.
> >
> > What are people's thoughts? I've not come up with a firm date yet, but
> > coming to consensus sooner rather than later would be nice.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>

So, this can be done easily, I'm just wondering when we should go
ahead with things? It'll only take a few hours, so it's just a matter
of picking a date that people are ok with.

Also, if anyone has anything they want to add to the page on mw.org,
I'd welcome the input.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion/pywikipedia

-Chad
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