Thanks PJ for doing the switch.

I was away for a few days, but took a look now and it seems to work fine.

Anything that needs doing for the move where you could use some help?

Regards... Dominik.



On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote:

> I also forgot to mention that our builds on the ASF CI machine use svn
> checkouts so they will need to change too.
> We have a GitHub CI job so checks the POI compilation so we are unlikely
> to seriously bust the POI build but please be a bit careful until we can
> get all the CI jobs building from the git repo.
>
> https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/POI/
>
> On 2025/07/07 10:42:56 PJ Fanning wrote:
> > The git repo is now our main repo. The svn repo is now read-only.
> > The code freeze is over.
> > Easiest to check out https://github.com/apache/poi
> >
> > Our docs need to be updated to reference the git repo instead of svn.
> I'll look at this over the next few days.
> >
> > The docs could be an issue for a while as the poi-site svn has not been
> moved nor has the symlink.
> > Working Copy Root Path: $POI_HOME/src/documentation
> > URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/site/src/documentation
> >
> > I'm going to propose that we just move the files to src/documentation in
> https://github.com/apache/poi (no symlink).
> >
> > I can set up a new branch in apache/poi to publish the poi.apache.org
> website. The website would refresh when that branch is updated. `asf-site`
> is the usual branch name in ASF repos.
> >
> > This is controlled by the `.asf.yaml` file that is in the root of our
> code.
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=INFRA&title=Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-Introduction
> >
> > If there are no objections, I can look into getting the website
> publishing working from our git repo in a few days.
> >
> >
> > On 2025/06/17 13:58:45 Axel Howind wrote:
> > > Not on Mac anymore unless you want to install or already have
> homebrew, macports, or Fink. Xcode does not come with SVN anymore. There
> are some commercial versions available though that also include cli tools
> (and when I last checked had licensing terms for the free versions that I
> could not agree with).
> > >
> > > But the main advantage of using git imho is the support for pull
> requests and code reviews. I think  the entry for possible new contributors
> is also easier with a tool most developers are already familiar with.
> > >
> > > > Am 17.06.2025 um 11:02 schrieb stanton fisque <sfis...@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > TBH svn clients are easy to get.
> > > >
> > > > but that's not a good reason to stick with svn.  a move to git would
> probably revitalize the ci/cd pipeline for this project.   the only real
> problem i see, is who wants to spend the effort to move the repo history
> over.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stanton Fisque
> > > > principal technologist
> > > > latticeware.com
> > > > portland, oregon
> > > >
> > > >> On Jun 16, 2025, at 19:36 PM, Axel Howind <a...@dua3.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Definitely move to GitHub and not create another workaround
> workflow to keep SVN alive. Tools drop SVN support (I think most already
> have), and just getting a working SVN client is not as easy as it should be
> (probably depends on platform).
> > > >>
> > > >>>> Am 17.06.2025 um 02:47 schrieb PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org>:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I would support moving to git.
> > > >>> GitHub CI has started working on our GitHub mirror. For ages, only
> > > >>> commits to the trunk branch triggered jobs but now we are seeing
> PRs
> > > >>> lead to jobs triggering.
> > > >>> Our main CI jobs are on https://ci-builds.apache.org/ though.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 20:11, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Hi Devs,
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Over the weekend I saw PJ was triaging some PRs from a
> contributor, and thought I would take a look at some of the older ones and
> do some triage. Because of the fact that GitHub.com/apache/poi is git
> mirror of svn I was unable to close these PRs. I can close these issues
> from a svn commit message:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> svn ci -m ‘closes #123, closes #345’
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Here’s the GH docs about the commit message:
> https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/using-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue#linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue-using-a-keyword
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> If there are no objections I’ll create a file called
> `.svn-gh-pr-closer`, append notes, and commit messages.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> The alternative would be to migrate over to GitHub. One
> prospective way to start would be to add CI workflows to GH.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Best,
> > > >>>> Dave
> > > >>>>
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