Re: Github?

On 5 February 2012 09:55, Ing. Daniel TIHELKA Ph.D. <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am also not against moving to GitHub.
>
> However, as Dan Rollo said:
> > Downsides are that any existing patches in Jira against svn become
> harder to apply.
>
> And I have  few patches prepared (asked for revision).
>
> So, I would suggest to open "pre-migration" window, in which paches still
> waiting for revision will be checked and considered for being applied. To
> get the list of such patches, let their authors sent JIRA issue codes (or
> the patches directly) to this list.This will allow to solve waiting
> requests for all those actively folowing the development. Having such list,
> we can decide which patches/requests can go in and which will wait until
> moving to GitHub.
>
> Do you think it would be manageable?
>

I'm wondering what the difference is between applying a patch to a SVN
sandbox vs. applying a patch to a Git repository.  I'd assumed that both
used a tool like patch [1] to apply the diff.  Do we do anything different?

Julian.


>
> Regards,
> Dan T.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 4, 2012 18:47 CET, Dan Rollo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm not against a move to GitHub.
> >
> > Downsides are that any existing patches in Jira against svn become
> > harder to apply. That said, I recognize there has not been a lot of
> > patch activity, so maybe that is not a blocker. I would ask that we do
> > not make such a move until I at least get to a couple patches that have
> > been on my plate for a while.
> >
> > If a move to github occurs, it should be done in a way that preserves
> > the history (and tags/branches) from svn (as described in the git docs).
> >
> > Some might argue that git is still a slightly higher learning curve for
> > new users than svn, but the power of git can't be ignored.
> >
> > I'm fine with the idea of moving to git. Any thoughts from the lists?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > From: Paul Julius <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Cruisecontrol-devel] Github?
> >
> > +1
> >
> > But I would be most interested in hearing Dan Rollo's feedback.
> >
> > - PJ
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Julian Simpson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >  > > Hello,
> >  > >
> >  > > I was talking to Jeffrey Fredrick the other day about putting the
> > CruiseControl source code on GitHub.  I said I'd raise the question on
> > the mailing list.
> >  > >
> >  > > My thinking is that the project is more likely to get pull requests
> > from GitHub users, than it is to get diffs via JIRA.  CruiseControl may
> > get some more love by doing this: IMHO using GitHub lowers the bar to
> > participation. Sure, some people will fork the project and never give
> > back, but it's done in an overt way.
> >  > >
> >  > > Naturally, all the committers keep their roles, just on a different
> > system.
> >  > >
> >  > > Any comments?
> >  > >
> >  > > Sincerely
> >  > >
> >  > > Julian.
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > --
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