I think that it is technically possible to make clean Hg->SVN migration and it would be pity to give up the history. I ll try to investigate it some more for some more time. Let's postpone the decision for a while (2-3 weeks).
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Michael MacFadden < [email protected]> wrote: > Honestly at this point, I would vote for just a clean check in. While we > can talk about he use of having the history in the SVN, the fact of the > matter is that I don't think it is really important enough to hold us up. > That fact alone has been the only reason why we haven't migrated the source > in nearly 10 months. The fact that no one on the project has spent the time > over the last 10 months to figure out a solution says to me that it really > is not that important. The revision history will stay on Google code for > historical reference if we need it. > > Imagine if we had just switched over at the beginning of the project. We > would then have 10 months of check in history in the SVN. Most times when > we need to look back at the revisions it's because something had changed > recently. If we had 10 months of history, I doubt we would be going back to > the Google Code Hg very much at all. I think the need for the Hg history > will decrease rapidly over time once we actually make the move. > > I know it would be nice to have the history, but it seems to be the road > block. If we just bite the bullet and make the switch a few months from now > I don't think it will be impacting us at all. > > ~Michael > > > On Sep 4, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Yuri Z wrote: > > > Hello > > Yes, you are stressing an important point. I don't think anyone on the > Wave > > project would like cancellation of the podling. So, the only solution > would > > be just complete the migration and move the source code to the Apache > Infra, > > hopefully along with the Wiki. > > However, there are technical issues as well. I already contacted the > infra > > and the Apache SVN mail lists for assistance on the move from Hg to SVN, > but > > it seems like there's no single easy to use tool to do it. There are > bunch > > of tools that can help, though, but that requires investigation. If the > > infra would provide some tool that would enable automatical migration > from > > Hg to SVN - that would be really helpful. > > Yuri > > > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Wave has entered incubation on 2010-12-01. > >> I think it is time to re-open the discussion on the source code move > >> from hg to svn again. The project is now 10 months in incubation and > >> the sources are still not the ASF. Without sources incubation makes no > >> sense imho. > >> > >> Can we sum up what exactly is going on and what are the blockers? > >> > >> I know people are not keen working with SVN, but as long as there is > >> no GIT at the ASF, this is the only way to go. If this is a blocker, > >> we should discuss the cancelation of this podling. I think it is not > >> (or should not) > >> > >> Are there technical problems - then we should outline whats expected. > >> Maybe infra can help > >> > >> CHeers > >> > >
