Re: pkg-java team, subversion, git (was: Bug#540756: solr-common: please move packaging to GIT)
Hi,
- Why GIT and not HG, BZR, ...
- Bzr is crap, so Hg remains
- http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-usage
- KDE, Gnome, Kernel, freedesktop.org, Fedora, Perl5, GNU auto..., Ruby,
YUI, hosting at sourceforge ...
- would GIT make it harder to get new contributors?
- It would lower the barrier for me and my collegues, maybe there are others
who don't like to work with ancient tools
- The contributors who are stopped by GIT are rather the non experienced,
while those who are stopped by old SVN are rather the more experienced
- We build our own debian packages internaly for deployment. Sometimes we
make small changes to official debian packages and repackage. If you'd use
GIT, we could just start a new branch for our internal changes and if
these changes make sense for you, we can publish the branch.
- a DVCS could make it easier to collaborate with other distributions
(Fedora), see http://vcs-pkg.org/
- will GIT fragment the team?
- Don't know your team well enough, but for every change you make, there
will be projects who already made the switch and those, who haven't made
it yet
Beste Grüße, Thomas Koch
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Torsten Werner<twerner@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Jan-Pascal,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jan-Pascal van
> >
> > Best<janpascal@vanbest.org> wrote:
> >> Any thoughts from the team?
> >
> > I would really love to convert out svn repo to git and even volunteer
> > in doing the actual conversion.
> >
> > BUT!
> >
> > The number of active team members is really too low. I think that git
> > would make it harder to hire new slaves^Wcontributors. That is why I
> > tend to stay with svn and svn only.
> >
> > What do other people think?
>
> I don't have anything against git. I have never used it.
>
> But from point of view of good coordination between members of the
> team, I think svn serves us well. Hence I don't see any immediate need
> to migrate to git.
> Also considering very low number of active developers, I don't believe
> git will have any advantage over svn. Rather I feel that git may
> fragment the team.
>
> Just my two <your_favorite_currency>. :-)
>
>
> Onkar
Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
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