Re: [Gambas-devel] Gambas to Git(Lab)

[Karl R. <kar...@fe...>]

Am Samstag, den 22.07.2017, 20:35 +0200 schrieb Adrien Prokopowicz:
> 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).

Salut Adrien,

a short test shows me the Copy Links get a 404.
But I do not know anything about GitXX


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Amicalement
Charlie