i still think the scm is not an issue. the %age of committers is negligible compared to the number of users whatever you use. So you need a nice product first. Tools follow or not...you speak about scm but we can speak abou tbuild tool too, "gradle is far better than maven"...it doesn't help the topic at all
*Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* 2013/10/8 Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> > On 8 Oct 2013, at 11:42, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > > just an habit. svn diff && attach diff to a jira is as easy/hard as git >> push + PR. >> > > Tools like GitHub succeed because not everybody agrees with you. svn/diff > is stoneage to some. git/pr is the future for them. Maybe you are right > about the habit thing, but it doesn't change the fact everybody seems to > enjoy with git these days. SVN is on the same road as CVS. It's not that I > don't like SVN. It has served me well and I still use it. I know teams > which are doing better with SVN. But esp in open source using SVN looks > like the code is maintained by dinosaurs who don't want to work with "new > things". > > Please note, I am not saying we should move on to Git right now. > > Moving to Git will be a lot of work and we'll have a lot of questions to > answer. > For example: how would we deal with pull requests? There are no partial > checkouts in git. We would have most likely one repos per component. Would > we need to create a "super parent component" including all proper > components as submodule, like we have the svn view? And so on. > > If we have enough willing folks to push this forward, I am happy to see it > happen (unfort i am tight of time at the moment) > > Cheers > > > >> If you want to push back your changes you'll do whatever the techno is. >> >> *Romain Manni-Bucau* >> *Twitter: @rmannibucau >> <https://twitter.com/**rmannibucau<https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> >> >* >> *Blog: >> **http://rmannibucau.**wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*> >> <http://**rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/>> >> *LinkedIn: >> **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/**rmannibucau*<http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau*> >> *Github: https://github.com/**rmannibucau*<https://github.com/rmannibucau*> >> >> >> >> 2013/10/8 Xavier Detant <xavier.det...@gmail.com> >> >> 2013/10/8 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> >>> >>> >>>> I don't think using SVN is a barrier to private modifications like this. >>>> People just fork the mirror on Github, or import the code with git-svn. >>>> >>>> >>>> I didn't said it was. Of course you'll do your private change, but you >>> won't share it easily (not as easily as with git IMO). >>> >>> -- >>> Xavier DETANT >>> >>> > > --- > http://www.grobmeier.de > @grobmeier > GPG: 0xA5CC90DB > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
