[sword-devel] Contributing to sword-tools repo?

[Greg Hellings]

Based on the way this conversation has gone in the past, nearly
everyone involved except the project administrator would welcome a
migration to git. Even if it was a self-hosted git. But the project
admin remained unconvinced the last time the topic came up.

So please, don't re-open this old sore spot. Sword is in SVN, hosted
on the crosswire server, and there it shall remain.

--Greg

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
> On 2016-01-14, 12:50 GMT, Baiju M wrote:
>> I know that this project is encouraging new contributors. I can read
>> like this here: http://crosswire.org/volunteers/
>> "Currently, the CrossWire Bible Society has a number of projects in
>> progress, all open to new volunteers"
>> I think moving to Git would be a good choice.
>
> I think you misunderstood the situation. There were numerous
> flamewars on the topic of svn/git migration (browse through
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.literature.sword.devel to see
> for yourself), and I think the sitaution is a bit more
> complicated than what this page suggests. The powers to be IMHO
> actually really do not want new contributors to sword, because
> they would have to loose some control over the project. You may
> be allowed to contribute a simple bug fix, but the current state
> of the sword codebase is good enough for them and there is
> really little if any will to change status quo. And SVN serves
> as a pretty good barrier for entry of new contributors, so it
> will stay here for a long long time.
>
>> I started collecting few notes here, when we are going for migration,
>> this will be helpful.
>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Git_Migration
>
> See
> https://gitlab.com/mcepl/git-svn-tools/blob/master/git-svn-fix-authors
> and git-svn-fix-tags in the same repo. The result is
> https://gitlab.com/mcepl/sword-tools
>
> HOwever, as I said, the block for the transition is in people
> not in tools.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Matěj
>
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