Re: [DRAFT] GNOME to migrate to git

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 00:42 +0000, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Here's a very first sketchy version of the git migration announcement.
> The suggested plan is to migrate everything just after the 2.26.1
> release (April 14).
> 
> Owen: it would be nice if you could add a bit more data about the
> current status of the migration. Does the migration date makes sense
> for the migration team?

Not really sure what you are looking for. The main remaining items on my
TODO are:

 - post-commit notification mails to update websites, etc.
 - no-sysadmin intervention solution for importing new projects
   (NewSVNRepos equivalent)
 - rename svn-commits-list to commits-list

But I don't think we need to go into that much detail. You might want
to say something like:

 A number of projects that are not yet part of the GNOME release
 process have already successfully migrated to git.gnome.org.

Somewhere.

> Everyone: please, suggest improvements and fixes.
> 
> We should send out this announcement asap so that the community is
> aware of the decision very early in the 2.27.x cycle.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --lucasr
> 
> ------------------
> 
> The GNOME Release Team would like to announce that git has been chosen as the
> new Version Control System (VCS) for GNOME. In our opinion, the decision on git
> represents the opinion of a vast majority of our active contributors base.
> 
> 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
> version control system 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, Elijah Newren, 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 14.
> 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'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. If you'd like to help,
> subcribe to gnome-infrastructure[4] and report/discuss any issues you find
> there.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 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