Re: [Nagios-devteam] Moving to git?

[Ethan G. <ega...@na...>]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Ethan Galstad wrote:
>> Top posting because its easier. :-)
>>
> 
> As the Pope of Nagios, I suspect you can bestow a healthy dose of
> absolution on yourself for that ;-)
> 
>> I see your pain with CVS and believe that we should move to git.  It
>> will take a while for me to get up to speed on git, as I have more than
>> a full plate of things to take care of in the next month.
>>
>> What I would suggest is this:
>>
>> 1. We make a 3.1.1 release with bugfixes and let people test it out
>> 2. After a bit of testing, a 3.2 stable release is made
>> 3. After 3.2, we ditch CVS and move to git completely.
>>
>> There aren't too many more patches that would need to be applied to make
>> a 3.1.1 release, so that can probably come out late this week.  After a
>> 3.2 release we switch to git and proceed on a development path that we
>> can all discuss at the conference in two weeks.
>>
>> Is this a reasonable scenario for you Andreas?
>>
> 
> Sounds awesome. It's good to have something to look forward to.
> 
> As for getting up to speed on git, I'd be happy to give you a quick
> crash-course when we meet in stockholm. 10 minutes of face-to-face
> explanation is probably worth about 20 hours of browsing online
> documentation. It'd also give you an insight into how I work with
> git, both for Nagios' sake and all of the Nagios-related stuff at
> op5, which I'm sure will come in handy at some point.

Sounds perfect.

If you still have the info that Hendrik sent you on git, can you put it
online?  I created a new "Developer Documentation" section on the Wiki
for stuff like this:

http://community.nagios.org/wiki/index.php/Developer_Documentation

> 
> I haven't booked a return train to gothenburg yet. I'm actually
> planning on staying in Stockholm over the following weekend to party
> with some friends. Depending on your plans we might have plenty
> of time even though I suspect much of it will be interrupted by suits
> wanting to discuss pieces of paper. With any luck, there's a boat
> involved this year too ;-)
> 


We arrive Tuesday early noon and fly out on Saturday.  I think Friday
afternoon will be free for us, but if you're busy we'll just have to
party Thursday night. Which means we should get the git stuff out of the
way before that happens. :-)

- Ethan Galstad