JB,

I'm kind of confused.  When I've submitted patches via Github in the past, I 
was told that was not an appropriate means to submit them and I had to generate 
patches and put them in Jira.

Can you explain this discrepancy?

Thanks, Brian

On Aug 18, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
> 
> We are several (it's my case), to already use git (with git-svn).
> 
> For github, we already use it as source, as soon as they contain the correct 
> grant, compliant with the Apache standard.
> 
> There are already lot of developer that use Karaf github mirror. If you take 
> a look on:
> https://github.com/apache/karaf
> 
> you can see that we have 28 forks, pull requests, etc.
> 
> As you said, we are an Apache project, and so some guidelines. There are 
> still discussions in the ASF to provide a git service.
> 
> So, be sure that we are following all discussions related to git, and we 
> already know (and use since long time now ;)) that git is much appreciated ;)
> 
> Regards
> JB
> 
> On 08/17/2012 11:49 PM, Andrei Pozolotin wrote:
>>    *Jean-Baptiste, and ALL:
>>    *
>>    I am sure you had chance to convince yourself that
>>    git + fork/pull is better then svn + patch.txt
>> 
>>    I understand that you have apache guidelines,
>>    but the switch should be easy:
>> 
>>    1) treat github as the primary commit source,
>>    require every git pull to contain an apache one liner
>>    " Grant license to ASF for inclusion in ASF works (as per the Apache
>>    License <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>§5)"
>> 
>>    2) replicate git to svn on schedule via hudson/jenkins job,
>>    if github goes bust - just fall back to svn;
>> 
>>    3) continue to produce snapshots and releases from svn
>> 
>>    above all else, get an easy access to 500K github java developers
>>    who are just eager to start committing to the karaf! :-)
>> 
>>    what do you think?
>> 
>>    Thank you,
>> 
>>    Andrei
>> 
> 
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> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
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