From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 03:48:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20140106165108.B6BF4380865@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389062951 3464 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 02:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 02:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. 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Raymond's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:51:08 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 213.80.101.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167560 Archived-At: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: > The thread on the git move proposal is showing signs of exhaustion and > terminal topic drift. We can ask Karl Fogel for a poll count but I > think we all know how that would turn out; the pro-git vote has > been overwhelming. > > I have asked Andreas Schwab and he reports the Savannah git mirror > ready for production use. Having examined it, I agree. Andreas and I > have discussed the switchover and believe it should consist of the > following steps: > > 1. Andreas will turn off bzr commit mirroring. > > 2. Andreas will enter a small documentation commit recording the changeover. > > 3. Andreas will announce on the dev list that the git repo is live for > developer pushes. > > 4. I will do the work required to update /etc and /admin for git use > over the following few days. > What about branches? I have a long-lived branch in the bzr repo. In my case I can just drop the branch and make a new git repo, but I think we need a statement on branch handling nevertheless. > I am now recommending that Andreas perform steps 1-3 at his convenience, no > sooner than 2014-01-06T11:59:00 and no later than 2014-01-07T11:59:00 - > that is, sometime tomorrow. > > Consideration of workflow changes is explicitly deferred. Developers > should continue writing ChangeLog entries as per established custom. > > I want to extend a thank you to everyone who participated in the > debate, *including* the anti-git dissenters, for generally sticking to > real issues and maintaining civility. > > Stefan, please either (a) confirm that you as the official maintainer > are authorizing this, or (b) put a hold on it and explain what > additional steps or conditions you deem necessary before we move. -- Joakim Verona