[Qgis-developer] GIT open for pull requests on master

[John C. Tull]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the update and all the hard work you and others have put in to get the transition to git completed. I look forward to the migration guide.

Regards,
John

On May 8, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi Folks
> 
> Well we have been poking around with the qgis/Quantum-GIS github repo
> for the last week and I think it looks ok for us to continue to work
> against it. So unless there are any objections I would like to make it
> the 'official' code repository and update the docs etc. I will be
> adding some documentation on how to carry out your basic workflow with
> the new repo.
> 
> One thing we briefly discussed on the IRC channel is not reinstating
> every committer from the svn committer list. Since we now work with a
> distributed model, it is simple for *anyone* interested in working
> against our code base to do so and contribute their changes back with
> very little effort. Also, external contributors get fully acknowledged
> as their name & email are propogated into the code history when we
> pull from their repository or apply their patches (if they were
> created using the git patch preparation tool). As such it makes little
> sense for use to have tens of committers into the core repository,
> Instead I would like to suggest that we provide the most active
> committers with direct access to the repostory and let them apply pull
> requests from others as needed. The ability to work on QGIS is truly
> democratised with GIT and the purpose of committers to the core repo
> should (in my eyes) be just to perform a final screening for code
> quality etc before it makes its way into the repository.
> 
> If you are an existing svn committer and feel strongly about wanting
> to have direct commit access to the master repo, please speak up now.
> 
> With regards to the migration to redmine, I am waiting on osgeo to
> provide a backup and then we will attempt the migration - Alex Mandel
> has kindly offered to help with this - hopefully we will look at it
> later tonight.
> 
> As such the release of 1.7 is still on hiatus until we get all our
> infrastructure updates done - small patches to fix issues in the
> release branch (no string changes please) are welcome in the mean
> time. Packagers are also encouraged to build test packages and submit
> any needed changes to support their packaging work.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Tim
> 
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