[wtp-incubator-dev] Migrate incubator projects to Git?

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to toss out the idea that the WTP Incubator move off of CVS and 
over to Git.  The eclipse webmasters put out a general call earlier 
asking for interested projects to do the migration.   Since the code in 
the incubator is pretty self contained, we could do this on a per 
component basis.   It would also give us a place as a group to test out 
and figure out any migration issues that can occur and any build 
infrastructure changes that may need to occur as well.   The items we 
learn here could help benefit the community as a whole.

There are some risks assummed by this move.  First while the eGit plugin 
is improving drastically every day, it still doesn't have all the 
feature level support of the CVS client.   So those using git repos 
would need to be willing to help out the eGit project and when necessary 
move to command line for some items.   I suspect that eGit is going to 
get to where it needs to be within the next 3 months.

There are build issues that will need to be addressed.   I'm planning on 
migrating Vex's CI build on Hudson to Maven/Tycho, but keeping existing 
functionality in place for the current WTP build.   The speed 
improvements I've seen in build times with maven have been pretty 
significant compared to other methods I've seen.   PsychoPath the XPath 
2.0 processor went from an average of 20 minutes down to about 2 minutes 
for a complete build.   XQuery I've seen similar results, but running 
under 50 seconds.

Anyways, thought I'd toss this out to the incubator committers and get 
some feedback.

Dave