Re: GNOME and git

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 13 février 2009, à 01:01 +0000, Lucas Rocha a écrit :
> Suggestion for the decision/message/plan (which strongly depends on
> the status update from Owen):
> 
> - We chose git as the new VCS for GNOME
> - We believe that decision represents the opinion of a vast majority
> of our contributors
> - We believe moving to a DVCS will potentially allow us to collaborate
> more efficiently inside GNOME and with other communities
> - We invite the community to
>   * test the new preview git repos in git.gnome.org and help us
> finding and fixing any issues
>   * help us to provide accurate documentation for documentors,
> translators and developers
> - Migration to git will officially take place just after 2.26.0 release if
>   * we have full documentation (or at least a good part of it written)
> about how to use git in the daily GNOME development (targetting
> documentors, translators, developers, etc)
>   * we know the new git.gnome.org is reliable for development and that
> any major migration issues has been addressed
> - By migrating in the very beginning of the 2.27.x development cycle,
> we'll be able to work out any issues very early in the development
> process and give enough time for contributors to get used to the new
> VCS

Yep. Was waiting for Owen's status update to evaluate the situation,
before working on the messaging :-) But sounds good.

Fred (the other one this time) was looking at talking with bzr people to
get the feeling. I think it's quite important to do that too before
moving.

Vincent

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