[Gambas-devel] Gambas to Git(Lab)

[Adrien P. <adr...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

In an effort to both switch the Gambas project versioning to Git, and to  
move away
 from Sourceforge, I imported the whole repository to GitLab. You can see  
it here :

https://gitlab.com/prokopyl/gambas

 From what I see, all history, commits, tags and branches have been  
successfully
imported, and authors have been correctly mapped from their Sourceforge  
usernames to
Git full names and emails (the SVN/Git mapping file is attached).

I know there has been some GitHub vs. GitLab debate on the mailing list  
somewhere,
but it didn't seem to have produced anything, so I just picked one.
Since nothing I have done is GitLab-specific (it's just a plain Git  
repository for now),
we can easily use GitHub too.
I personally picked GitLab simply because we can easily retrieve data  
(issues, wiki and such)
 from a generated archive if we ever want to switch, and their integrated  
CI solution
seems less restricted than Travis (but I didn't go that far with it).

For now, all I did was cloning the entire SVN repo on the server that  
hosts the
playground (for its symmetric 100Mbit/s connection :) ), then using  
git-svn to
create a git repo from the clone, and then push it all to GitLab.

I'm currently trying to set up Continuous Integration to generate Ubuntu  
packages, and
maybe for more distributions later (RHEL/CentOS, Debian, ArchLinux, …).

I know we won't switch to Git right now, I'm at least waiting for 3.10 to  
be released
so everything can calm down. :)
However I would like your feedback : what do you think is needed to make  
Gambas
successfully switch to Git ? (Whichever host we end up choosing).

Regards,
-- 
Adrien Prokopowicz