Re: Dia on git.gnome.org (experimental repository)

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 01/18/2009 09:02 AM, Hans Breuer wrote:
> Will it be possible for a module maintainer on gnome.org to choose to stay
> with SVN?

GNOME has not yet decided to move to git.  No move is currently 
scheduled.  The current work is investigative.  That being said, there 
is a lot of momentum right now in git's favor.

I would guess, though, that if a real migration does occur, it will be 
100%.  I do not think the infrastructure team will want to maintain two 
(or more) VCSs, not to mention all the confusion that would occur in 
development documentation.

> In an earlier post Owen was mentioning a lot of "angst" [1] regarding the
> switch from SVN to git, unfortunately I share that angst.
>
> In the list of possible (distributed) version control systems from my
> limited experience git is the one, which cares less for portability (fair
> enough for being the Linux kernel version control system).
>
> But for gnome.org where a lot of projects actually do care for portability
> I think there should be official vcs support at least for major platforms
> we care about. And some usable gui integration would be nice, too [2].

I think everybody needs to take this very seriously.  It may be that 
Hans just has the wrong version of git installed, I don't know.  But 
without straightforward installers and GUI tools like TortoiseSVN, we 
are really pushing away the Windows developer community (Mac, too?). 
Maybe this isn't a big deal to most of GNOME, but I know it will have a 
negative impact on my modules (Tomboy, Tasque).

I'm not trying to convince you that this is a blocker, or anything.  But 
if we do go ahead with a git migration, let's not pretend that it is an 
improvement on the Windows/Mac side.

Sandy