On 9/17/2017 9:04 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
On 14/09/2017 Dave Fisher wrote:
does SVN vs. GIT prevent new developers from volunteering?
I think this is the key question, even though there are many good points
also in what others replied.
We currently have a couple semi-official GIT mirrors: one on Github in
the ASF organization page and the internal one Herbert pointed out. I
also remember that Herbert once presented a big GIT repository he had
built with all the available history of the OpenOffice code, but I don't
know if it is available somewhere.
I believe that the interested developers (including me, at times) use
the git-svn tool when convenient. I think that this is enough to allow
the local workflow improvements Damjan was requesting. Or do you see
reasons not to use it?
As for the new developers, most new developers are probably familiar
with the "pull request" convention. This is not supported by either of
the current repositories, mostly due to ASF policy. Last time I checked,
Infra was still discussing how we can allow pull requests in a way that
complies with the policy and I have no idea whether this is resolved.
Once we have official support from Infra and a friendly pull request
system, this might indeed improve the approach for new developers.
The big new developer issue may be lack of Subversion experience. Git
seems to be the repository-of-the-decade. In the past, people have
stopped learning about older repositories, so new developers only know
the current winner.
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