Re: Time to move the tomcat-site repo from svn to git?

On 14/08/2026 19:31, Coty Sutherland wrote:
> Dropping an update here: INFRA-27874 got been updated that the mirror
> exists now. The site sources are now available at
> https://github.com/apache/tomcat-site. The default branch is wrong, but
> I'll fix that. Otherwise it looks OK to me. To Chris' point from last time,
> I'm not sure how if we need to update any tooling to pull from git, or if
> we just expect that github mirror into svn and don't update anything? I can
> ask on the INFRA ticket if we're not sure but I suspect Mark knows :)

Infra would need to:
- disable the svn -> git mirror
- switch the website source from svn to git
- make the git repo writeable

We should check that all is well with the mirror and then request the 
above changes.

Mark

> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM Christopher Schultz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Rémy,
>>
>> On 4/30/26 11:01 AM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM Coty Sutherland <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was looking at changes for the tomcat.apache.org site to follow up
>> on the
>>>> in-progress SECURITY.md addition and realized that I haven't setup svn
>> on
>>>> my new laptop yet. Lots of other projects have ${project}-site repos in
>>>> git; should we move our site to git too? I don't see any historical
>>>> discussions about it on the dev-list. As a nice side effect, moving to
>> git
>>>> should make it easier to get website update contributions from new
>>>> contributors, like the folks Dimitris and I talked to at FOSDEM earlier
>>>> this year.
>>>>
>>>> I think this will require infrastructure work, which I'm happy to take
>> that
>>>> on if there are no objections and someone can point me in the right
>>>> direction.
>>>
>>> The folders for the site and the release repos are both copied from
>>> there, so I don't think it is so easy (or useful) to move them.
>>
>> We can alter the tooling to pull from git. I've forgotten what uses svn
>> directly or not; the tools/update-version.sh script does use svn but it
>> should be easy to change to git instead.
>>
>> -chris
>>
>>
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