Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I think this plan makes a lot of sense. I'll just throw in my two bits for a couple of other points: * the git-buildpackage workflow is really quite wonderful and reasonably flexible, I highly recommend it, and I think it will improve the productivity of this team. * Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser

Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 26, 2014, at 02:36 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I think this plan makes a lot of sense. I'll just throw in my two bits for a couple of other points: Cool. * the git-buildpackage workflow is really quite wonderful and reasonably flexible, I highly recommend it, and I think it will

DebConf14 Python BOF notes

2014-08-26 Thread Stefano Rivera
We had a fairly successuful Python BOF yesterday, here are the notes from Gobby. The video should soon be available on: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/ Python 3 support: what can we do to add more python3-foo packages?

Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Barry, thanks for this write-up. An open question remains what to do about the current history that is in svn. My experience of doing this is as follows: * For many repos, svn-all-fast-export does an excellent job of turning a complete svn history into something that looks identical to

Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Stuart, On Aug 27, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Stuart Prescott wrote: I eventually gave up and used git-import-dscs -- debsnap. That said -- all the above experience was with full-source svn repos. I would anticipate that the debian/-only repos would be easier to migrate as they are much simpler, but

DebConf14 svn-git migration BOF notes

2014-08-26 Thread Stefano Rivera
Yesterday, after the general Python BOF, we had a follow-up git migration BOF. There isn't video yet, but it should appear on http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/ Up until now it's everybody in the same VCS and that prevents us from migrating. Relax the svn

Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Barry, I eventually gave up and used git-import-dscs -- debsnap. That said -- all the above experience was with full-source svn repos. I would anticipate that the debian/-only repos would be easier to migrate as they are much simpler, but then the new git repo would also be debian/-only. I

Re: DebConf14 svn-git migration BOF notes

2014-08-26 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi! svn history, do we keep it? with git-svn, or with the kde git-svn-import, each tag becomes a branch which is a pain. BTW svn-all-fast-export is the package that contains the kde git-svn-import tool -- it does rather have a naming crisis. svn-all-fast-export accepts a mapping that

Re: Proposed git migration plan

2014-08-26 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-08-26 20:04, Stuart Prescott wrote: I eventually gave up and used git-import-dscs -- debsnap. That said -- all the above experience was with full-source svn repos. I would anticipate that the debian/-only repos would be easier to migrate as they are much simpler, but then the new git