Hi all!

Let me give a public update about our Git Migration Decisions after the last meeting:

* The migration of our SVN repository "reactos" is going to happen in September/October.

* https://github.com/reactos/reactos will become our master repository as we want to take advantage of GitHub's Pull Request features.
This means, all developers must register for GitHub accounts now.

* git.reactos.org will remain as a replication slave. If we ever have severe problems with GitHub, we can switch back to a self-hosted Git in no time.

* We will enforce a linear history in the "master" branch through server-side GitHub settings. You may create and push as many branches as you want and do whatever you want there, but when you want to commit the changes back to "master", you can only do so over a "git rebase".

* BuildBot builds will get a naming scheme like:

    reactos-bootcd-0.4.7-dev+344-5f3c53e2a-gcc.7z

That means 344 commits after the tag "0.4.7-dev" has been created, with this particular commit having the short hash "5f3c53e2a". Whenever we branch for a release like "0.4.6", we will now not just create the branch, but also tag "master" with "0.4.7-dev" to make this naming scheme possible.


More newsletters like this may follow when I have more information to share or get the impression that some decisions haven't reached all developers yet.


Best regards,

Colin

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