[Kde-scm-interest] Minutes from Today's KDE -> Git BoF

[Ian Monroe]

This is the minutes Leo wrote while the meeting was going on, so its a
bit stream-of-consciousness.

Notes from KDE + Git BOF:

Current situation: amarok goes first, gets basic infrastructure set
up, scripty, etc.

what do we need for the git transition?

    pre-commit hooks (acltest, docbook, EOL/UTF-8)
    post-commit hooks (BUG/CCMAIL, email/CIA, license header checks)
    techbase documentation
    convert all accounts to SSH
    1 project for all accounts on gitorious? sub-project membership?
how should gitorious account system work
    get rid of svn:externals
    how do the people get accounts on gitorious? telling them to make
one themselves puts up a big hurdle that people don't need
    reviewing of patches
    snapshot to read-only svn? (it's work, but maybe some people would like it)

        --> NEEDED for documentation, in order to get it back into SVN
for the translators/scripty/?

    check with other platform guys

        convert!

thiago's proposal for splitting: split the main modules at the module
level (kdemultimedia, kdebase). Extragear & playground will be split
at the application level---e.g. amarok/k3b/whatever. at last count,
that leaves us with ~450 repos.
will it raise the bar to create new apps if we do this
application-level split? is that a good side effect? probably---many
apps with just 1 or 2 commits.

android repo tool: good for downloading/updating multiple git repos
and could create a tree of git repos, but "repo" has 2 features: also
pushes changesets to a server-side reviewboard, which we don't really
want (and gitorious doesn't support yet). could split repo out (thiago
talked to shawn pearce), or something else.

how do you support relocating code within KDE?

    importing in to one of the main modules is not hard
    taking something from main->non-main module is done little. (but
is possible, if complicated)

gitorious is expensive: we have a lot of anonsvn bandwidth for free.
we could use gitorious for our git server, and mirror anon-git on our
free high-bandwidth anonsvn servers.

how do we get over the initial  hump---everyone needs to clone at the
start, so we'll need a lot of bandwidth to get it all out.

let's postpone (perhaps forever) the www.kde.org switch to git, not as
necessary, small number of people who access it with complex ACL.

KDE accounts file is no longer useful---used for mapping svn ID ->
email, but we have that now from gitorious.

what is the "canonical", "official" repo of KDE? talking with the
marketing team, the canonical place to get KDE should be on a kde.org
domain. e.g. git.kde.org. Gitorious folks said they could do this, its
trivial.

FUNDING - FUNDING - FUNDING! (some people inside Nokia have indicated
support, also KDE e.V. board has some infrastructure budget).


JOBS:

sebas: talk to people using other distros about git
danimo: talk to windows guys
machael jansen: talking to kdesvn-build/mpyne
thiago and sebas: funding
jonas: domain name
simon: snapshot to svn (for docs)
darktears: reviewboard/patches
thiago: actually convert :D
dfaure: get rid of svn:externals
ML: convert to SSH
lots of ppl: write docs on techbase!
chani: techbase docs for scripty
thiago: pre/post-commit hooks
sebas/lydia/leo: communication with teams! tell people! keeping track
that everything is being done.

TIMELINE:

amarok first, then also phonon... then talk about whether to go all
together or piecemeal. thiago prefers all at once.
--> ideally before 4.4 freezes, but it has to be after 4.3 is branched.

must proactively go out and spread the word on how to do the migration
-- COMMUNICATION