[gdal-dev] git(hub) migration ?

[Daniel Morissette]

Whatever option we go with, I agree that it is important to maintain the 
full history of code and tickets. In addition to the "svn blame" example 
that Even gave, being able to track the provenance of each line of code 
is also good practice for legal reasons.

Daniel


On 2017-09-06 2:40 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>
> On mercredi 6 septembre 2017 21:16:46 CEST Dmitry Baryshnikov wrote:
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> > Hi Even,
>
> >
>
> > I think this is great proposal. Github is modern tool for develop, code
>
> > review and test software.
>
> >
>
> > I like idea to migrate code and tickets (3). Not sure we need to migrate
>
> > closed tickets.
>
> I'd wish closed tickets to be migrated as well (I don't think this is 
> more complicated to migrate both opened+closed tickets than just 
> opened tickets). More than once I had to "svn blame" and was happy to 
> be able to find a reference to a >10 year old ticket that gives some 
> context for a change. Tickets are true assets of a project (at least 
> for the developpers) (I was thinking to suggest the "fossil" SCM (*) 
> which has the big advantage of including tickets in the repository, 
> but of course we would miss the increased social collaboration aspect 
> with such a choice :-))
>
> > Also it worth thinking to migrate only the 2.x code
>
> > tree.
>
> I'd like the whole history to be preserved in the migration.
>
> > There are not so many releases in 2.x, so branches can be convert
>
> > to tags manually.
>
> We could indeed probably create the tags manually without recreating 
> the whole clone.
>
> >
>
> > Anyhow you made me thinking about this.
>
> > By the way this work may be the subject of GSoC 2018 (not sure if this
>
> > allowed by program).
>
> I don't think that would be appropriate for GSoc which requires coding 
> for a project. Infrastructure work like this is not allowed AFAIK.
>
> Even
>
> (*) https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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