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[Yannick Vaucher <yannick.vaucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

As migration process can often be done by jump of 2 versions, it would mean
that for most of us we will have to keep both git and launchpad for at
least 2 years.
(It would be certainly more)

So even if its a pain for 1 month with MP to migrate:

+1 to move 6.1 + 7.0 to github now

Cheers,


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Guewen Baconnier <
guewen.baconnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is still one point that is not totally clear yet, that is wether
> we migrate only the 8.0 branch on GitHub or all the existing branches
> (6.1, 7.0).
>
> Excellent rationales for the full migration have been given by Leonardo
> Pistone [0] and Laurent Mignon [1]. Read them.
>
> Summarizing:
>  - Sharing the tools and processes for all series will benefits to all
> of us and even more for newcomers, less formation and maintenance costs
>  - Less complexity
>  - Merges and backports between 6.1, 7.0 (bzr) and 8.0 (git) would be a
> punishment
>  - Painful for reviewers and committers to use 2 review platforms
>  - Allow to add the same runbot/CI than v8
>
> The arguments to keep the existing branches in Launchpad were:
>
> * The existing merge proposals in progress:
> The authors of the MP will have to move them to GitHub themselves if
> they are not merged before the switch.
> For sure, that's not nice to have to move them, but keeping the branches
> on Launchpad for this reason would be shooting ourselves in the
> foot because the merge proposals are rather short-term, while the reason
> quoted above are for the long term. Also, the migration work will be
> shared among all the contributors so it will not be so dreadful.
>
> * The translation of Launchpad (Rosetta):
> We still have to find a solution, but we have the same problem for the
> 8.0 branches. Alternatives exist (transifex, onesky, ...)
>
> In my opinion, we have much more to gain to migrate all the branches to
> GitHub now than keeping part of them on Launchpad. According to the
> discussions on the thread, it seems that it tends to be shared by a
> majority but not everyone gave his opinion.
>
> We have to move forward, so if nobody disagree, we will migrate all the
> community branches to GitHub.
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> [0] https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-community/msg06150.html
> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-community/msg06160.html
>
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Yannick Vaucher
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Camptocamp SA
PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone: +41 21 619 10 30
Office: +41 21 619 10 10
http://www.camptocamp.com/