[Zope-dev] Zope 4 release management

[Martin Aspeli]

On 17 November 2011 15:50, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
> ... (Interesting roadmap snipped)
>
>> This process will  necessitate a lot of merging, so I want to propose
>> that we move to Git for development (something we found very helpful
>> at our recent San Francisco Zope 4 sprint.) I don't have any opinion
>> on where the canonical repository should be hosted - I know some
>> people have strong opinions that this should be on Zope Foundation
>> controlled hardware. If that's to be the case then we will need the
>> svn.zope.org maintainers to setup a shared git repository on that
>> machine.
>
> Why on that machine?  Why not have the ZF set up git.zope.org?
>
> As the primary maintainer of svn.zope.org, I'm not volunteering
> to have more stuff there. :)
>
>> I think mirroring to github (and/or launchpad in future) will
>> be the simplest way to provide an anonymously accessible and web
>> browsable copy.
>
> I haven't used GitHub myself, but I gather it's good. :) Why not
> just let them host the project?

That's the conclusion Plone came to. We have experience of running
such a migration now, so can probably help. We also have some
mirroring for backup happening.

Martin