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

+1

On Jun 2, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Florian Thienel wrote:

> 1+
> 
> DVCS is definitely the way to go and the incubator can also be a testbed 
> for the infrastructure.
> 
> Florian
> 
> Am 01.06.2010 22:48, schrieb David Carver:
>> 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
>> 
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