Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Struberg
>To: Maven Developers List >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:45 PM >Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > >2012/9/13 Mark Derricutt : >> Whilst it "may work" it's also rather horrible, unless every module in said >> repository shares the s

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-13 Thread Olivier Lamy
2012/9/13 Mark Derricutt : > Whilst it "may work" it's also rather horrible, unless every module in said > repository shares the same version number and gets released at the same time. > > If however it's planned to go this route of a single repository, but separate > release cadences for modules

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Derricutt
Is this not where the use of Review Board ( or preferably, Gerrit IMHO ) comes into play, any patch/commit goes thru the code review system prior to being accepted, and part of that review process is a required signoff that committer X has a contribution license for the project. On 12/09/2012,

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Derricutt
Whilst it "may work" it's also rather horrible, unless every module in said repository shares the same version number and gets released at the same time. If however it's planned to go this route of a single repository, but separate release cadences for modules, some rework and new releases of th

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-13 Thread Vincent Siveton
+1 Vincent 2012/9/5 Olivier Lamy : > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more generally on git Apache infrastruc

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Fox
I'm +1 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Robert Scholte wrote: > I don't think it's IF we should move to git, but WHEN and now seems to be > the right time. > +1 > > Robert > > Op Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:49:46 +0200 schreef Paul Gier : > > > +1, and I'm willing to volunteer if you still need more peo

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Robert Scholte
I don't think it's IF we should move to git, but WHEN and now seems to be the right time. +1 Robert Op Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:49:46 +0200 schreef Paul Gier : +1, and I'm willing to volunteer if you still need more people. On 09/05/2012 06:04 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: Hi, This vote is to decide

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Wayne Fay
Changing my vote to +1 based on Kristian and Mark's recent exchanges. Wayne On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Wayne Fay wrote: >> [+1] Move to git scm >> [0] No interest >> [-1] don't move to git (please explain why) > > +0.5 > Sorry but I will be no help, I have little git experience except as a

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Gier
On 09/11/2012 07:13 AM, Kristian Rosenvold wrote: >> But GIT sucks a bit when it comes to projects like maven-shared and >> maven-plugins which get released in portions. We already explained that with >> long words and we might have found a compromise which doesn't hurt too >> badly. But still i

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Gier
+1, and I'm willing to volunteer if you still need more people. On 09/05/2012 06:04 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Struberg
t: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > >> But GIT sucks a bit when it comes to projects like maven-shared and > maven-plugins which get released in portions. We already explained that with > long words and we might have found a compromise which doesn't hur

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
> But GIT sucks a bit when it comes to projects like maven-shared and > maven-plugins which get released in portions. We already explained that with > long words and we might have found a compromise which doesn't hurt too badly. > But still it has to be verified if that works out. Tagging the w

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Emmanuel Venisse
+1 Emmanuel On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more gene

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Struberg
+0 with a long explanation I'm really a friend of GIT in general. As some might remember I am even the guy who kicked off the GIT madness in maven land back in 2007 in the first place [1]. But I'm also a friend of using the right tool for the right job. GIT is great for projects which are no

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
same here but I'm convinced git can help in some cases, like maintaining branches in parallel so I'm finally +1 Regards, Hervé Le jeudi 6 septembre 2012 20:53:39 Dennis Lundberg a écrit : > +0 > > I personally don't have the git knowledge to be able to help, but I'm > interested in learning

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
github pull requests can be accepted even though we are ASF hosted, in fact github will automatically close the corresponding pull request as the commit is pushed back through the git mirroring from asf->github.com/apache. I think github is extremely important, but they have also managed to be smar

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Olivier Lamy
2012/9/6 Jesse Glick : > On 09/05/2012 08:39 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >> >> I'm a bit curious to see if that will increase externals contributions. > > > I think plain Git is only marginally more friendly for external contributors > than Subversion. Yes you can create a local branch and update it ag

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Struberg
he.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 9:35 PM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > > On 09/05/2012 08:39 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: >> I'm a bit curious to see if that will increase externals contributions. > > I think plain Gi

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Jesse Glick
On 09/05/2012 08:39 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: I'm a bit curious to see if that will increase externals contributions. I think plain Git is only marginally more friendly for external contributors than Subversion. Yes you can create a local branch and update it against trunk changes, but you still

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Struberg
r the 'experiment' to be successful. LieGrue, strub - Original Message - > From: Dennis Lundberg > To: Maven Developers List > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:53 PM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > > +0 > > I

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Dennis Lundberg
+0 I personally don't have the git knowledge to be able to help, but I'm interested in learning the new technology. In my view the tooling for git is not yet as good as for SVN, but it's getting there. We have two important things to look out for: 1. Support for git at the ASF, and documentatio

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Wayne Fay
> [+1] Move to git scm > [0] No interest > [-1] don't move to git (please explain why) +0.5 Sorry but I will be no help, I have little git experience except as an end user. Wayne - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.a

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
Hi, As Kristian said, there's already a Zillion articles referencing it. Personnally, (DVCS advantage) I really like being able to work locally/offline, going back and forth in the history and branches, *very quickly*. Having no difficulty to navigate between ideas without much burden. Being able t

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Struberg
ssume that we don't have any devs of that kind around actively working on maven ;) LieGrue, strub - Original Message - > From: Chris Graham > To: Maven Developers List > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 2:33 AM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven proje

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Baptiste MATHUS
+1 (non binding). Willing to help. Git shows clear advantages over svn. Le 5 sept. 2012 14:37, "Garvin LeClaire" a écrit : > +1 (non-binding) > > -- > Regards, > > > Garvin LeClaire > garvin.lecla...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Anders Hammar wrote: > > +1 (non-binding) > > >

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
I think it would be a very pragmatic move to simply leave the "maven-plugins" project unmigrated until we have established documentation and tool support to a level where we're happy with whatever solution we choose. I think the only really disasterous version we could end up with is the one which

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Brett Porter
+0.5 if it makes devs or patchers lives easier No time to help, and I'd like to see a clearer understanding of how we'll convert non-t/b/t-layout repos before we end up with 50 repositories as others have said. BTW, if anyone is looking at doing that, I found the svn2git worked well for filter

RE: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Jason Pyeron
+1 I/we can volunteer. > -Original Message- > From: Stephane Nicoll [mailto:stephane.nic...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 9:21 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git > > +0 > > S. > &g

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Graham
I knew someone would misread that. I was not referring to anyone on this list. People on this list are at the pointy end of the stick, although we have a spread of abilities, most are in the upper end of the scale. The reason for this is simple. It's because to do it because we like it, a passion

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread John Casey
If we applied the same logic back in 2004, we would still be on CVS. Personally, I think Git affords us a lot of opportunity to streamline the contribution process and a much cleaner way of working (patching, rebasing, local branches, etc.) I've switched to Git for all of the rest of what I do

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread John Casey
+1 but have no time to volunteer at the moment. On 9/5/12 6:04 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: Hi, This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra for this move

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > [+1] Move to git scm > [0] No interest > [-1] don't move to git (please explain why) +1 (binding) No capacity for volunteering to help :( - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsub

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Robert Scholte
"No-one is using cvs anymore." That's a wrong assumption, sad but true. I still know companies which haven't invested in moving forward to a new versioning system, because CVS still works good enough. Investments is not only about the hardware and the investigation, preparation and execution

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Manfred Moser
+1 non binding In terms of learning more about git, there are a LOT of free resources available including books and other documentation as well as things like live office hours at github and so on. GitHub is also open sourcing all their training material so there will be more as well.. and lots o

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Igor Fedorenko
+1 -- Regards, Igor On 12-09-05 7:04 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: Hi, This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra for this move and more generally on git

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Olivier Lamy
2012/9/5 Kristian Rosenvold : > We only move things we are satisfied with. But we don't vote on each > item unless there turns out to be some real issues to solve. > Most of the maven projects already have excellent git repositories at > http://git.apache.org/, Note: current ASF projects using git

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
We only move things we are satisfied with. But we don't vote on each item unless there turns out to be some real issues to solve. Most of the maven projects already have excellent git repositories at http://git.apache.org/, for these it's just a modified "scm" url and the flip of a switch or two.

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Daniel Kulp
I'm +0.5 on everything that currently has the trunk/tags/branches setup in SVN. -1 on things that are not setup that way right now until more discussions and agreement can be made on how that should be approached. Really, I think we should just do Maven core and maybe one or two other simple o

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Olivier Lamy
2012/9/5 Chris Graham : > It's not a matter of thinking that git is like SVN at all. > > It's the exact opposite in fact; they are different, to the extent that it > entails a whole new approach. > > We have a well resourced, well understood, well supported tool and mature > practices with our cu

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Benson Margulies
Chris, Just whom amongst us are you labeling 'a few immature devs'? Many of us here have been using both git and svn, extensively, for years now, and have a preference for git based on plenty of practical experience. While git is new-ish at the ASF, it's official, and a growing list of projects a

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Stephane Nicoll
+0 S. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more generally

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Jesse McConnell
fwiw, i suspect most of us that have voted simply prefer working with git over svn certainly anyone that has had to manage branching and merging with svn vs git would understand...it is simply better with git. sorry you had management push you to use Hg, but git is a solid upgrade over svn at thi

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Graham
It's not a matter of thinking that git is like SVN at all. It's the exact opposite in fact; they are different, to the extent that it entails a whole new approach. We have a well resourced, well understood, well supported tool and mature practices with our current SVN. All I am saying is that

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Milos Kleint
+1, cannot help unfortunatelely Milos On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > f

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 binding can help On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Jesse McConnell wrote: > +1, git is far beyond being a 'fad' > > > > -- > jesse mcconnell > jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Arnaud Héritier wrote: >> I think Olivier already replied to some points given few point

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Olivier Lamy
I think Chris ask more what will that change for our projects for community point. Perso I'm a bit curious to see if that will increase externals contributions. I don't want to do that only to ease life of "private maven forkers". But so this discussion must in a separate thread not in the vote thr

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Garvin LeClaire
+1 (non-binding) -- Regards, Garvin LeClaire garvin.lecla...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Anders Hammar wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > But I don't have the hard-core git knowledge to help out in the move. > Would probably do more harm than good. :-) > > /Anders > On Wed, Sep 5, 2

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Anders Hammar
+1 (non-binding) But I don't have the hard-core git knowledge to help out in the move. Would probably do more harm than good. :-) /Anders On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Kristian Rosenvold wrote: > The hosting bit is defined in context of apache, there is not much we > need to do in that respect

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
The hosting bit is defined in context of apache, there is not much we need to do in that respect. This dusussion has been on/off for quite a few years, so I'm not entirely surprised if you haven't seen it all. As for "fad", I'm old enough to believe that version control systems have their "epochs"

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Jesse McConnell
+1, git is far beyond being a 'fad' -- jesse mcconnell jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Arnaud Héritier wrote: > I think Olivier already replied to some points given few points where Git > is really interesting : performances, branches management .. > But yes there ar

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Arnaud Héritier
I think Olivier already replied to some points given few points where Git is really interesting : performances, branches management .. But yes there are skills to learn, it's not easy and the error is to think that Git is like SVN But it may be an opportunity to learn ? On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:38

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Raffaele P. Guidi
+1 Il giorno 05/set/2012 13:04, "Olivier Lamy" ha scritto: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more generally

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Graham
-1 Non binding. I have no desire to setup and learn new tools for no clearly apparent advantages. There appears to be multitude of ways that DSCM's can be configured. I'm not sure if sufficient thought/discussion has been given to the way in which it should/can be set up. Where it is to be hosted?

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Tony Chemit
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:04:29 +0200 Olivier Lamy wrote: +1, but can not be volunteer no time at all ATM. Next month should be better to help you guys and do some code at last... tony. > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Arnaud Héritier
+1 and volunteer for infra help. I'll find the opportunity to launch few more shells commands per day :-) Arnaud On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. Have no spare time ATM, so cannot volunteer even if I would love to > > On 5 September

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Stephen Connolly
+1. Have no spare time ATM, so cannot volunteer even if I would love to On 5 September 2012 12:04, Olivier Lamy wrote: > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteer

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
+1 Will volunteer Den 5. sep. 2012 kl. 13:04 skrev Olivier Lamy : > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more gen

Re: [VOTE] Move Maven projects sources to git

2012-09-05 Thread Olivier Lamy
+1 and volunteer for infra help. 2012/9/5 Olivier Lamy : > Hi, > This vote is to decide moving our source tree currently located in one > svn repository to git (multiple git repositories). > First, we need to have at least 3 volunteers to help on Apache infra > for this move and more generally on