All progress - even a clean check in - is good for the project.

The next project report is due to do 14.09 - is there a chance to have
a decision (not the solution) for this report?

Cheers

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Matt Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree, at this point it would likely be best for a clean check in.
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:16 AM, 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 historical reference if we need it.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
>> >>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> --Matt
>



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