[ZF] Proposal: Launchpad code hosting for ZF projects; free commercial support for migration

[Tres Seaver]

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Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> Most of you were probably around back when we transitioned from CVS to SVN.
> 
> Before the transition, some developers complained about having to
> learn Yet Another Tool to do what they already did successfully with
> CVS.
> 
> After the transition, some people still complained of the same thing,
> as well as not having a properly working ViewSVN to replace the
> ViewCVS app which worked correctly.
> 
> And yet, overall, the switch was huge net win, as we managed to work
> much more effectively with branches and directory management than we
> could with CVS, and the true problems we faced after the migration
> were eventually resolved, like the ViewSVN one.
> 
> And that migration was done entirely on volunteer time.
> 
> I'm not claiming moving to Launchpad is necessarily going to be a net
> win for the Zope community, but I suggest we carefully evaluate this
> offer on the "net win" criteria alone, and not on an eventual vocal
> minority, whether for or against it, even if in the end we have some
> drawbacks from adopting it.

Please let us separate the strands of the question here:

1. Should we move from SVN to a new DVCS?

2. If so, which one?  There are already folks happily using git,
   and bzr, and hg in our community:  I'm pretty sure there is no
   easy consensus among the four choices.

3. If the developers choose bzr, should we take Canonical up on their
   offer?  I would vote "no" here:  I don't think the Foundation should
   outsource managment of the codebase, where custody of that codebase
   is the entire reason the Foundation exists.


Tres.
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