[Kde-scm-interest] Migration of KDESDK to git

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi Jeremy,

Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012, 13:00:04 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
> 
> <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> > Those "brave people" are you, Nicolás and Jeremy :) Do you want to pick up
> > your work again and be our experts in the kdesdk migration?
> 
> I would love to help out as I am able to.  Lots of stuff going on at
> home so don't have a ton of time to devote to this, but I would like
> to see it happen and can spare a few hours a week to help someone get
> up to speed.

Good, thank you! Let's try to spread the tasks on many shoulders where doable, 
so things take less time for each and the results are quicker seen.

> > I myself have not really followed any of the migrations to git, so have no
> > real idea about the process. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit
> > only helped me a little. Do kdeedu or kdeutils or else have a log of
> > their process which could be followed?
> > 
> > I guess it's something like this:
> > 
> > 1. Decide which repos should be created from which submodules
> > 2. Write migration rules
> > 3. Setup a test git server with resulting repos to check rules
> > 4. Have everyone okay the rules
> > 5. Migration!
> >  a) Put writelock on module in svn
> >  b) Create real repos by the rules
> >  c) Configure EBN, API DOX, translations systems (what else?) for new
> > repos
> >  d) Put "Moved to git" note to module in svn
> >  e) Enable write access to git modules
> > 
> > Correct?
> 
> Yes, that's correct.  For 3 we have previously just used scratch repos
> in git.kde.org.  No need to set up a separate git server.  Otherwise,
> yes that looks like the process we've used in the past.

Okay, so took that as guide to roughly follow for now.

Cheers
Friedrich