[SQLObject] Converting svn to git

Hello, all!

   I've been working for some time behind the scene on converting the
subversion repository to git in hope it helps to revive development a
bit. Now when I'm mostly done I decided to communicate what's going on.

   First, I decided it must be git; git is a clear winner now.

   Second, I want to preserve the entire history, so I decided to
convert entire subversion repository to git. To do that I need a mapping
from svn login names to committers names and email addresses. I
collected them from svn and the mailing list archive. There are exactly
20 committers!
   Today I wrote 18 mail messages (excluding Ian Bicking and me from the
list of committers) asking their permissions to use their names and
emails in the public git repositories. I already get a few errors back;
some mailboxes are no longer available at their original domains; even
worse, some domains are no longer available or don't accept mail.
   One person I have to hunt especially hard -- he used 4 different
email addresses, none of which are now available. Finally I contacted
him via SF.net and he already replied -- the first one of those 18! He
gave me sixths address (-:
   I'm waiting for the other committers. As for unavailable ones -- I'm
afraid I have to use whatever addresses I have for them.

   After the conversion there will be two repositories -- one with full
history and another with a small subset of active branches; currently
these are branches 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and the trunk^W master.
   I will push these repositories to SF and github; I still value SF as
hosting; with distributed nature of git it's no longer a problem to have
clones/forks/mirrors all over the Net.
   Full history repository will be read-only; the other one is for
development. Repository at SF will be configured to send email
notifications on every push to sqlobject-cvs (heh) mailing list.

   Along with full history and development repositories at github there
will be a documentation repository with generated docs. Actually, it's
already there; docs are visible at http://sqlobject.github.io/ .

   Currently I am developing a git workflow (if there will be any).
Perhaps I preserve the current workflow. With it, master will be the new
trunk with all the latest unstable code; from it stable branches will be
branched off. With such workflow it'd be a bit hard to merge pull
requests directly from github web interface; I think I'll merge them
locally and then push merges.

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            ph...@ph...
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.