Re: SVN migration (Was: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache)

Hi David,

David Crossley <[email protected]> wrote on 10/20/2004 03:20:26 AM:

> Neil Graham wrote:
> > > 
> > > So would this be an appropriate time to move the
> > > xml-commons repository to SVN?
> > 
> > Well, I don't know about you, but I generally prefer to ease my way 
into 
> > new software tools, rather than dive right into advanced usage.  So, 
> > speaking for myself, I'd prefer to wait for a period of calm, where 
the 
> > move to SVN would be the only change, rather than combine the move to 
SVN 
> > with an update to most of the code in the xml-commons repository and 
> > whatever tinkering with branches that this also might end up implying.
> 
> I was not intending that the two get tangled.
> Either do the move before or after.
> 
> Just that when "legal delays" were mentioned,
> i thought that there would be plenty of time.

Can we be optimistic and hope not?  :)

> Afterwards is fine by me. I was responding to the
> [email protected] request to consider moving soon.

Guess this was only sent to folks subscribed to infrastructure@; I haven't 
seen it on any list I'm subscribed to anyway.  Good to know that they 
consider this set-up stable now; but if they really want to encourage 
projects to migrate, perhaps it might not be a bad idea to (a) let them 
know directly and (b) sell them on how worthwhile the pain will be.  I'm 
sure the pain's worthwhile from my perspective; I'd just rather wait until 
we're sure we're in a period of calm than embark on something now only to 
discover next week that things will get complicated.

> Apache Forrest was one of the early ones to move.
> The transition was a breeze and we love it now.

Cool! 

Cheers!
Neil
Neil Graham
Manager, XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Phone:  905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
E-mail:  [email protected]