On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 7:35 AM Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 8/2/19 1:06 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:01 PM Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/2/19 12:54 PM, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> >>>> On Aug 2, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 8/2/19 10:41 AM, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> >>>>> In the end, I don't care much to which version of the repo we switch, 
> >>>>> as long as we switch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Maxim.
> >>>>
> >>>> I really appreciate that you've been working on that. Same as you I 
> >>>> would like to see
> >>>> any change that will lead to a git repository.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have couple of questions about the upcoming Cauldron:
> >>>>
> >>>> - Are you planning to attend?
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, I won't attend this time.
> >>
> >> I see.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> - Would it be possible to prepare a voting during e.g. Steering 
> >>>> Committee where
> >>>>  we'll vote about transition options?
> >>>> - Would it make sense to do an online questionnaire in advance in order
> >>>>  to guess what's prevailing opinion?
> >>>>
> >>>> If you are interested, I can help you?
> >>>
> >>> Let's organize an online survey now.  While most active GCC developers 
> >>> will attend Cauldron, many others will not, so we shouldn't rely on 
> >>> Cauldron to make any final decisions.
> >>
> >> Sure, online is the best option as all active community members can vote.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Martin, would you please organize the survey?
> >>
> >> Yes, but I haven't followed the discussion in recent weeks. Is the only 
> >> question
> >> whether we want the current GIT mirror or your rebased git repository?
> >> Is Eric Raymond's transition still in play or not?
> >
> > 1) Stay with SVN
> > 2) Switch to the existing GIT mirror
> > 3) Wait for ERS to complete his conversion to GIT
> > 4) Use the existing new conversion to GIT fixing authors and commit messages
> > 5) I don't care
> > 6) I don't care as long as we switch to GIT
> >
> >> Are there any other sub-question regarding commit message format, git 
> >> hooks, etc.
> >> that will deserve a place in the questionnaire?
> >
> > No, please do not make it unnecessarily complicated.  Maybe the questionaire
> > can include a free-form text field for more comments.
> >
> > Btw, I do not believe we should do this kind of voting.  Who's eligible to 
> > vote?
> > Is the vote anonymous?  What happens when the majority (what is the 
> > majority?)
> > votes for option N?
> >
> > IMHO voting is bike-shedding.
> >
> > Those who do the work decide.  _They_ may ask questions _and_ decide whether
> > to listen to the answer.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> >> Thank,
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Maxim Kuvyrkov
> >>> www.linaro.org
> >>>
> >>
>
> So Richi is suggesting to finish all necessary for transition before we'll 
> vote.
> That should include bugzilla reporting script and maybe other git hooks?
> Do we have a checklist of these? Jason?

As far as I can see, the SVN hooks only send email to the *cvs and
gcc-bugzilla lists, that shouldn't be hard to mimic.

I think we also want to decide on policies for creating branches/tags,
deleting refs, or pushing non-fast-forward updates.  In the current
mirror you can delete branches in your own subdirectory, but not other
branches.

Jason

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