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From: Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>
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Subject: Re: Making git the repo of choice for Pig?
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There is a legal issue as well. Uploading a patch to JIRA requires the
user to grant apache license to use the code.  A pull request from github
does not.
This is all being hashed out elsewhere, none of us here are experts.


On 3/22/12 2:08 PM, "Russell Jurney" <russell.jurney@gmail.com> wrote:

>If there is already a trial going, the project would benefit from
>switching
>to git, as we could then (I think?) accept pull requests on github.  Maybe
>not, I'm not familiar with integrating multiple gits.  Barrier of entry
>for
>contributing would then drop dramatically, making happy for all.
>
>On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Dai <daijy@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>
>> This can be done in the future but I don't see there is an urgent need
>> for that. I'd rather wait for Apache to standardize the process and we
>> can easily follow and switch, rather than become the first several to
>> try and solve the infrastructure problem.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Coveney <jcoveney@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If people don't know git or svn, they are going to have to learn one
>>or
>> the
>> > other if they want to work with open source projects. It might as
>>well be
>> > git, since that's where things are going.
>> >
>> > 2012/3/22 Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>
>> >
>> >> Apache is currently doing a trial with git as the primary repo using
>>the
>> >> CouchDB project.  Other projects may be able to volunteer to join the
>> >> trial, I'm not sure.
>> >>
>> >> see http://git-wip-us.apache.org/
>> >>
>> >> I suggest that if you are interested in this join the apache
>> >> infrastructure-dev list.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 3/21/12 9:57 PM, "Russell Jurney" <russell.jurney@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >What's the work?
>> >> >
>> >> >Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com
>> >> >
>> >> >On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvryaboy@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> All that's left is for someone to volunteer to do the work.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Russell Jurney <
>> russell.jurney@gmail.com>
>> >> >>wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> What do we have to do to be the first real project that uses git?
>> >> >>> Let's do that. Or, let's just sink svn to github.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> It will propel the project forward.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Russell Jurney
>> >> >>> twitter.com/rjurney
>> >> >>> russell.jurney@gmail.com
>> >> >>> datasyndrome.com
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Bill Graham <billgraham@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>> I think this is the tweet (lacking the entire discussion tree
>>that
>> we
>> >> >>>>had
>> >> >>>> re git) where I was pointing out that some incubator projects
>>were
>> >> >>>>using
>> >> >>>> git.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> https://twitter.com/#!/billgraham/status/174744199407738880
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Russell Jurney
>> >> >>>> <russell.jurney@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>> I think this changed, and you are now allowed.  Looking for the
>> >> >>>>>tweets.
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Alan Gates <gates@hortonworks.com>
>> >> >>>>>wrote:
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> AFAIK Apache still does not support git as a primary
>>repository.
>> >> >>>>>>You
>> >> >>>>> can use the git mirror, which Pig does.  If this has changed
>>(or
>> >> >>>>>when it
>> >> >>>>> does), I'm +0 on changing, by which I mean I don't care which
>>we
>> use.
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> Alan.
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Jonathan Coveney wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> Would anyone be opposed to doing this? I think you can apply
>>to
>> do
>> >> >>>>>>>this
>> >> >>>>> via
>> >> >>>>>>> Apache, no? It would be nice to make git the first class
>> citizen of
>> >> >>>>>>> choice... forcing developers to use svn to work with pig is
>>just
>> >> >>>>>>>another
>> >> >>>>>>> barrier, imho. I thought this had been bandied about on
>>Twitter
>> >> >>>>>>>and the
>> >> >>>>>>> like, but not sure if it's been discussed seriously on the
>> >> >>>>>>>listserv.
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> Would love y'all's opinions on the matter
>> >> >>>>>>> Jon
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> --
>> >> >>>> *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please
>> email
>> >> >>>>me at
>> >> >>>> billgraham@gmail.com going forward.*
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>
>
>
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>Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jurney@gmail.com
>datasyndrome.com