From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2011-01-08T18:39:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34246] Re: Moving to Git?


On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:21 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 8 Jan 2011 05:02:32 +0900,
> Daniel Bovensiepen wrote in [ruby-core:34231]:
>> At the moment the following points are stated several times:
>> 
>> 	- one important committer will leave, if we switch to git
>> 		-> can we do something against it?
>> 
>> 	- yugui has to invest additional work to modify redmine
>> 		-> is the source of the modifed redmine available so that people can help?
>> 
>> 	- new people would be committing work to Ruby if we switch to git
>> 		-> is this really true? how much stuff is coming back via the current git-mirror on github?
>> 
>> 	- there isn't yet a complete solution for the revision linking problem from existing mails
>> 		-> maybe someone with git and svn knowledge can make a blog post which describes
>> 		what has to be done to solve this.
> 
> Thank you for the summary.
> 
> The point what I want to know most is:
> 
>        - any reasonable reason why we *MUST* stop using svn.
> 
> Am I missing such posts?

I want to add another point to this:

  - What is the estimated time cost of the transition, including finding solutions to the mentioned transition problems? Who is going to invest that time instead of working on MRI?
     -> having a look at the postgres migration report[1], this cost can be easily underestimated

This is a question I rarely see in these topics, but I see it as one of the most important ones.

Regards,
Florian Gilcher

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/409635/