Re: [gef-dev] GitHub migration, Oxygen release plans

[Fabian Steeg <steeg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

sounds great, +1 on all those points.

And btw, yay for moving to Java 8 after Neon :-) [1]

Cheers,
Fabian

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=495456

On 04.06.2016 09:58, Alexander Nyßen wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> while we have already agreed on migrating our code base from
> git.eclipse.org <http://git.eclipse.org> to GitHub (replacing the up to
> now mirrored repositories there), we had not clarified all the details.
> I want to initiate the migration soon after the Neon release
> (unfortunately there was no time to do so earlier) and had some thoughts
> about it in the mean time:
>
> 1) We had discussed earlier whether to migrate only the GEF4 code base,
> but having considered this in detail in the last weeks, I would propose
> to migrate both Git repositories (GEF 3.x and GEF4). First, because this
> is the intended policy of the Eclipse foundation to have all
> repositories in a single place, so we would need an exception otherwise.
> Second, because, as GEF 3.x is in pure maintenance mode now, hosting its
> code base at GitHub would give adopters an easier chance to maintain a
> fork, if needed.
>
> 2) As GEF4 supersedes GEF 3.x, I would like to take the migration as an
> opportunity to ‚flip the switch‘ during the Oxygen train. That is, I
> would like to use 'eclipse/gef‘ accordingly as the name of GitHub ‚GEF4'
> repository, and introduce 'eclipse/gef3' as name for the repository that
> contains the old GEF 3.x code base.
>
> 3) Further, I would propose to plan another major release (5.0.0) for
> Oxygen, and there adopt the ‚GEF4' code base to the original project
> namespace, migrating all ‚GEF4' bundles and features from the
> org.eclipse.gef4.* namespace to the original org.eclipse.gef.* namespace
> (and adopting their versions to 5.0.0 instead of 2.0.0). This could be
> done without colliding with the GEF 3.x bundles and features (so we
> would not have to rename these).
>
> 4) Last, I would propose to adopt our Hudson build jobs and update site
> urls, as well as artifacts names to use gef3 for the old code base, and
> gef for the new one.
>
> What do you think? Comments welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
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