[Biojava-dev] Code freeze for git transition

[Michael Heuer]

Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spencer Bliven <sbliven at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Last week I suggested this Friday would be a good date for the SVN to
>> github migration. That would mean that everyone needs to commit all
>> outstanding code to SVN by 3/29. There will be a code freeze for the
>> duration of the weekend, after which you can checkout code from github. Any
>> code not checked in by friday would need to be moved over to a git
>> repository manually, which is doable but somewhat involved.
>
> Looking over your transition notes, the only thing that concerns me is
> whether or not the maven release process (and the maven release plugin
> in particular) will work with the git branching proposal.  Is there
> any way to test this before the migration?
>
> I have never used the maven release plugin with a git repository, and
> in fact the only piece of software that makes me curse more than git
> is the maven release plugin.  :)

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE

"NOTE GIT users are adviced not to use 2.4 but 2.3.2 instead!"

http://jira.codehaus.org/issues/?jql=project+%3D+MRELEASE+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+component+%3D+Git+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC


Uh oh.

   michael