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Re: OCA: transition from Launchpad to Github

 

+1 for this solution as well !


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Yannick Vaucher <
yannick.vaucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>
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