[Biojava-l] should biojava svn be moved to github ?

[Spencer Bliven]

I'm all for it, provided (as others have mentioned)

   1. Eclipse support is now good enough for day-to-day stuff (maybe
   falling back to command line for complicated merges and branches)
   2. It integrates with Maven for releases

I was also slightly concerned with the overhead of storing the full git
repository. Surprisingly, a git checkout doesn't have that much more
overhead than a SVN checkout, despite storing full histories for each file.

Biojava trunk checkout
Bare files: 29MB
SVN checkout: 60MB (107% overhead)
GIT checkout: 74MB (155% overhead)
However, GIT did take substantially longer to download from github than SVN
took from the biojava server. Since server speeds likely differ
significantly, that's not apples-to-apples, but it might be realistic.

SVN checkout: 1m9.333s
GIT checkout: 4m50.871s

Overall I'm in favor of making the switch.

-Spencer



On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Andreas, that is a good document.
>
> One problem we might face is that some of the repository operations
> are performed by the maven release plugin itself and then we're at the
> mercy of the implementers of that plugin to have done it correctly.
>
>    michael
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > About the question how to cut a release from a distributed repository:
> > I found this article an interesting read:
> >
> > http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> -0
> >>
> >> I use github for quite a few personal things and mercurial via Google
> >> Code on a different project and while I think there are some benefits
> >> to the distributed model I don't understand how it would work from the
> >> point of view of a release manager.  Does anyone have any pointers to
> >> documentation on how to manage and cut a release from a distributed
> >> repository?
> >>
> >> With the current svn mirror on github, developers can already fork and
> >> create pull requests, they just need to be applied back to the svn
> >> repository.  Is there any advantage to moving the repository to
> >> github?  Are there any people who will start contributing because the
> >> repository is on github that are unwilling to do so with the current
> >> model (send patches to the mailing list or issue tracker)?
> >>
> >> My current client just started a new project on Google Code and we had
> >> a similar conversation:  subversion on Google Code vs. git/mercurial
> >> on Google Code vs. git at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read
> >> only git mirror at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read/write
> >> git mirror at github.  In the end we went with subversion on Google
> >> Code with possibility of git mirror later because we understand how
> >> the Maven release process works with subversion and we liked the issue
> >> tracker at Google Code a lot better than the one at github.
> >>
> >>    michael
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:14 PM,  <daniel.quest at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Github ==awesome.
> >>> Go for it and let the social coding begin
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Hannes Brandstätter-Müller<
> biojava at hannes.oib.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was wondering how people feel about migrating the BioJava  svn
> >>>>> repository and starting to use github for the trunk development?
> >>>>> (Currently github is only a read-only copy of our developer svn).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any opinions?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Andreas
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm in favor - git pull requests make submitting patches so much
> easier, IMHO.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hannes
> >>
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