Re: [DISCUSS] Switching to GIt?

Cédric Damioli <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:51:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel
Organization Apache Software Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I know my answer will be sort of chicken-egg issue, but I'd like to be 
sure that there is enough manpower to revive and/or continue to maintain 
the project, before putting efforts to move to Git.

My 2 cents,

Cédric

Le 20/11/2023 à 15:43, Christofer Dutz a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know that we currently have a mirror of the SVN in Github, however 
> still the root repository is SVN, I would like to propose switching to 
> using Git as the main repo.
>
> This would allow us to start using the normal GitHub Pull-Request 
> workflow and possibly make it a lot easier for new contributors to 
> contribute.
>
> Also, would I propose to start using GitHub Actions, GitHub Issues and 
> GitHub discussions as in other projects this has proven to lower the 
> barriers for new contributors (And it avoids the Jira account 
> approving nightmare). With the changes in the messaging defaults, that 
> I recently deployed, mirroring GitHub activity to the dev-list should 
> allow everyone to participate.
>
> What do the others think?
>
> Chris
>