[asterisk-dev] Git

[David M. Lee]

On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> On 19/11/12 16:51, Dan Jenkins wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> Can I ask why git.asterisk.org will be the home?
>> 
>> Why wouldn't you use github for your open source projects, where you want
>> people to be able to submit pull requests and be part of the community? I
>> don't want to hijack this thread with talk about git, but as you brought up
>> talk of git.asterisk.org maybe we need to move it out of this thread, if
>> it's up for discussion?

Since I would really love to see the transition to Git happen sooner rather than later, I'll see your hijack and raise you a new thread!

When we move to Git, we'll probably setup a mirror on https://github.com/asterisk-org, since everyone loves the GitHub.

But hosting the repositories ourselves makes sense since we already have the infrastructure. Besides, most of the other stuff that GitHub provides we already have with Jira and Confluence.

We don't really want to be subject to the whims of software fashion. Sure, GitHub is the new hotness. But what about in 5 or 10 years when there's an even newer hotness out there? Code hosting provides may come and go, but asterisk.org is forever!

As far as accepting pull requests, though, we still need to ensure that contributors have a signed Contributor License Agreement[2] on file. Some projects do some interesting things so they can accept pull requests and cover their bases from a legal perspective[3]. We'll have to figure out what we want to do for Asterisk, and I'm sure lawyers will be involved. Fun.

> Given the distributed nature of git, it's quite possible you could do
> both, or just have the whole thing on github (or one of the various
> equivalents, like gitorious), and then set up a cron job to pull
> everything to your private server every hour
> 
> For the conversion process, if it is any help, feel free to borrow the
> script I used for reSIProcate (see my earlier email for the link)


Thanks! The conversion process will be monstrous, given Asterisk's long history. Several people have done some work along those lines already (and I see Tzafrir has posted a link to his git mirror of Asterisk).

In addition to converting the repo, there will be a ton of work updating tools, documentation, policies, etc. There's a lot of stuff that uses the current Subversion infrastructure that needs to be updated. Which tells me that step 1 in moving to Git is for someone to actually figure out all the other stuff that will need to change.

 [1]: http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview
 [2]: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/secure/DigiumLicense.jspa
 [3]: https://github.com/lift/framework/blob/master/contributors.md

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David M. Lee
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