[gatein-dev] GIT migration

Hi, we are going to migrate the GateIn Portal repository to GIT soon (hopefully by next week) and here is the process we should follow: 1/ provide an initial repository (by me) as preview to play with it and check things are OK (identities, tags). 2/ stop SVN commits by the end of this week (which means that people having pending commits will have to flush them before the end of this week). 3/ the new repository should be available in GitHub early next week, ready to be used in the GateIn organization in a repository named "gatein-portal". We want to use GIT in order to keep a trunk as stable as possible and the main motivation is to never have "unfinished" work in the master of the repository: - a long feature does not have to be entirely finished of course to go in master but it should reach a certain milestone in its implementation. - a small feature should be finished and then merged in the master. - bug fixes can go directly in the master as they are independant. Git provides a huge benefit over SVN : it allows to schedule when commits are merged in the master without blocking other people to work. We will use this feature to "implement" the behavior explained before. After the 3.2 release, we want to increase our release rate with GateIn 3.3, 3.4, etc.. We think we should be able to make up to 4 releases a year (as opposed to a single release in almost 2 years which means an x8 factor). We also think that using correctly Git will help us to do that (also with a proper management of the roadmap and dependencies between features of course). The idea is to focus on a few selected features in the master at a time for the next release and keep the other in other branches (TBD). We will clarify how people can work with this repository soon, but in short at the beginning only a few persons will interact directly with the repository. We will use the "pull request" mechanism of Git to notify when a merge should be done (to be clarified by Bolek soon). Also here the idea is that we will schedule pull request at the appropriate time. So this is valid at the moment for the portal project, other project will be migrated later (during March/April), at the moment we focus on the portal because it's the place where the main activity is done at the moment. Other project will have likely similar rules but it will be less strict since it's usually used by less people than the portal. So tonight I'm providing a repository preview https://github.com/vietj/gatein-portal-preview for the portal that contains the SVN history and the released tags - it does not contain branch information (since we don't use them for the community versions). - you should check the repository (like using a tag and building it). - you must check your identity was correctly migrated (based on the information you provided) : if it is not tell me what is your Git identity. - the .gitignore file was not added yet, I will add it later (likely like this one https://github.com/juzu/juzu/blob/master/.gitignore) : if you have specific desire tell me - the maven release plugin is not yet updated to use Git and it will be done later (and actually it should be updated to release things more correctly). if you feel something is missing or have question, don't hesitate to raise the concern. cheers Julien