[orca-list] Fwd: GNOME to migrate to git

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

For those of you who pull from SVN, this is a big FYI...

Will

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>
> Date: March 19, 2009 7:04:33 AM EDT
> To: devel-announce-list gnome org, "gnome-i18n gnome org" <gnome-i18n gnome org>, Gnome Doc List <gnome-doc-list gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, gnome-infrastructure gnome org
> Subject: GNOME to migrate to git
>
> The GNOME Release Team would like to announce that git will be the new Version
> Control System (VCS) for GNOME. In our opinion, the decision reflects
> the opinion
> of the majority of our active contributors.
>
> In December 2008, Behdad Esfahbod organized the GNOME DVCS (Distributed Version
> Control System) Survey on behalf of the GNOME Foundation board of directors,
> Release Team, and Sysadmin Team with the aim of better understanding
> familiarity and preferences of our active contributor base regarding the future
> VCS for GNOME. The survey results[1], released in January 2009, show that git
> is by far the preferred DVCS for the majority of our active contributors - the
> main users of GNOME infrastructure. Elijah Newren has made an in-depth analysis
> of the results[2].
>
> Since January 2009, a group of brave contributors (Owen Taylor, Kristian
> Høgsberg, Behdad Esfahbod, Federico Quintero, and others) have been working on
> the migration of our Subversion repositories to git[3]. The git migration team
> is documenting their progress at:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration
>
> The new git.gnome.org server is now in good shape and contains a functional
> preview of all GNOME git repositories. The official migration of all our
> Subversion repositories to git will take place just after the 2.26.1
> release, on April 16.
>
> The git migration team is now working on sorting out the last details of the
> migration and providing complete documentation on how to use git on daily GNOME
> contributions (for documentors, translators, developers, etc). By migrating in
> the very beginning of the 2.27.x development cycle, we'll be able to work out
> any issues very early in the development cycle and give enough time for
> contributors to get used to the new VCS.
>
> We realize that git is not perfect, and that the transition will require
> significant and important changes to many GNOME processes. With that in mind,
> we hope that more community members will step forward to help making the process
> as efficient and painless as possible. We'd like to invite the community to:
> a) help us to provide accurate documentation for documentors, translators and
> developers; b) test the preview repositories in git.gnome.org and help the git
> migration team on finding and fixing any issues in the repositories you work
> on. For instance, modules using svn externals need decision from their
> respective maintainers[5].
>
> If you'd like to help, subcribe to gnome-infrastructure[4] and report/discuss
> any issues you find there.
>
> Cheers!
>
> The GNOME Release Team
>
> [1] http://www.gnome.org/~behdad/dvcs-survey/
> [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/
> [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-January/msg00137.html
> [4] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
> [5] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-March/msg00054.html
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