On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Herbert Duerr wrote: >> >> On 12.11.2013 16:48, janI wrote: >>> >>> @herbert, if nobody objects will you reopen the ticket, or should I ? >> >> I have reopened the JIRA issue and requested a read-only mirror for now. > > > And what would be the advantage for real contributors in having a read-only > GIT mirror? The complaints I've seen so far are mostly in the other > direction (i.e., committing or applying patches). I'm not talking about > generic advantages of GIT: everybody here can be assumed to have a good > working knowledge of both SVN and GIT. What concrete problems does a > read-only GIT mirror solve in our case? > > I'm not at all against it, but I'd just like to make sure that a read-only > GIT mirror brings enough concrete advantages, since many GIT niceties (local > commits, proper attribution, quick application of patches) are still left > out or significantly limited with this approach. > > By the way, you can find discussions about GIT everywhere at Apache, there's > even a Github account https://github.com/apache and lots of suggestions like > adopting the newly-released Apache Allura (Incubating) GIT (and more) > hosting environment. As far as I know, there have been very significant > updates in the GIT support at Apache in the last few weeks and I hope that > this is soon summarized in a blog post at http://blogs.apache.org/infra/ or > reflected in the documentation at http://www.apache.org/dev/git.html . So > this is a good moment to start considering GIT again. >
We should consider the website as well. Does the CMS have hooks that work with git repositories as well? Or would we need to keep the website in SVN? -Rob > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
