Re: [jgroups-dev] Moving JGroups from CVS to Git ?

Alejandro Revilla wrote:
>>> BTW, you may consider creating a Github JGroups 'Project'. I wouldn't
>> wait
>>> for 3.0 ...
>> What do you mean ? I've already created it at
>> github.com/belaban/jgroups. But it's currently only experimental, we're
>> still using CVS.
>>
>> Sorry, I said 'project', I meant to say 'Organization'. This could help:
> http://support.github.com/discussions/repos/1173-registering-a-project-for-an-organization
>
> An 'Organization' can give you the ability to manage commit privileges to
> your contributors, although I have to tell you, with Git, a contributor
> doesn't really need commit privileges, [s]he can just send you pull
> requests. A release manager may need commit privileges though, and you can
> manage that with Github's 'organizations'.

Got it. I think we'd go with pull requests first and see how this works. 
If any of the current CVS writers are on github, I'd make them 
collaborators.


> BTW: is there a way of preserving the commit history of CVS, when
>> switching to Git ? I know this can be done for Subversion... I guess
>> I'll have to finish the Git book before asking stupid questions ! :-)
>>
>> I've used svn2git and it preserved all history, branches, tags, etc. 
>> I just
> had to create a simple 'authors' mapping file.

IC, I'll try this out, thanks !

> It seems there's also an cvs2git (http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html).
>
> Yesterday, I came across Eric Raymond's reposurgeon project that could be
> good to have in mind, if required (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2718).
>
> I noticed that you now have maven support, is maven the preferred 
> method to
> build JGroups now or you still use ant?

No, to build JGroups I still use ant. I only use maven to generate and 
upload the artifacts to maven (nexus).

The switch to maven might come at some point, but since I currently 
don't depend on any other JARs (runtime), there's no urgent need to do this.

-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss

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