[Gambas-devel] Gambas to Git(Lab)

[Tony Morehen]

Adrien,

Great work!

I'd like to become a contributor/developer.  I'm retired so I have time 
to spare.  My programming experience goes back almost 40 years, to a 
PDP-9.  My C is very rusty, but my basic and Gambas is current.


On 2017-08-11 05:24 PM, Adrien Prokopowicz wrote:
> Le Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:35:17 +0200, Adrien Prokopowicz 
> <adrien.prokopowicz at ...176...> a écrit:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In an effort to both switch the Gambas project versioning to Git, and 
>> to move away
>>  from Sourceforge, I imported the whole repository to GitLab. You can 
>> see it here :
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/prokopyl/gambas
>>
>>  From what I see, all history, commits, tags and branches have been 
>> successfully
>> imported, and authors have been correctly mapped from their 
>> Sourceforge usernames to
>> Git full names and emails (the SVN/Git mapping file is attached).
>>
>> I know there has been some GitHub vs. GitLab debate on the mailing 
>> list somewhere,
>> but it didn't seem to have produced anything, so I just picked one.
>> Since nothing I have done is GitLab-specific (it's just a plain Git 
>> repository for now),
>> we can easily use GitHub too.
>> I personally picked GitLab simply because we can easily retrieve data 
>> (issues, wiki and such)
>>  from a generated archive if we ever want to switch, and their 
>> integrated CI solution
>> seems less restricted than Travis (but I didn't go that far with it).
>>
>> For now, all I did was cloning the entire SVN repo on the server that 
>> hosts the
>> playground (for its symmetric 100Mbit/s connection :) ), then using 
>> git-svn to
>> create a git repo from the clone, and then push it all to GitLab.
>>
>> I'm currently trying to set up Continuous Integration to generate 
>> Ubuntu packages, and
>> maybe for more distributions later (RHEL/CentOS, Debian, ArchLinux, …).
>>
>> I know we won't switch to Git right now, I'm at least waiting for 
>> 3.10 to be released
>> so everything can calm down. :)
>> However I would like your feedback : what do you think is needed to 
>> make Gambas
>> successfully switch to Git ? (Whichever host we end up choosing).
>>
>> Regards,
>
> So I just took some time to clean up the repository, and I implemented 
> the
> workflow we discussed in previous messages, with one little exception 
> : the
> master branch is the development branch, and I created a "stable" 
> branch, which
> currently contains the newly-released 3.10.0 version.
> This way, the master branch works exactly like the old "trunk", which 
> makes the
> migration easier (both form a svn-git and a developer standpoint).
>
> I also removed all the old version branches[0] and turned them into 
> actual tags
> instead[1].
>
> I also transferred the repo from my personal account to a new group :
> https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas
>
> I invited Benoît as an owner, and Laurent and Fabien as developers.
> If other regular contributors / component maintainers want to join,
> just ask me here. :-)
>
> I would like the group to be simply called "gambas", but for that 
> Benoît needs
> to change his username on GitLab first (right now it conflicts :-) ).
>
> Now that the repo is organized and usable, the only thing left to do 
> to fully
> switch to Git(Lab) is to write the contributing guides and update the 
> wiki,
> so that everybody can configure their clients and start working again.
>
> As a side note, it is amusing that even though the repo wasn't fully 
> migrated,
> there is already enough work done in it to make examples for the git 
> workflow :
>
> - Last week, I made some small changes to how the WITH keyword works 
> (see bug
>   #1131 on the tracker[2]), but since these changes affect the 
> compiler and the
>   generated Gambas bytecode, I wanted to have Benoît review it, so I made
>   a new temporary branch (from master), and created a Merge Request[3] !
> - I also created another experimental branch[4] to try and build 
> Gambas with
>   CMake instead. This is an old project of mine that was never 
> completed, but
>   I decided to push it on the repo for experience sharing, because :
> - Laurent Carlier wants to try and use Meson for building Gambas,
>   but since he had no access to the repository at all, he forked it to a
>   personal repository[5].
>   This way, when he will be done he can create a Merge Request to 
> merge it
>   back into the main repository, which is a great way for other people to
>   contribute to Gambas. :-)
>
> You can also see all the branch shenanigans on the fancy graph here :
> https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas/network/master
>
> [0] https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas/branches
> [1] https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas/tags
> [2] http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.1131&from=L21haW4-
> [3] https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas/merge_requests/1
> [4] https://gitlab.com/gambas-basic/gambas/tree/cmake
> [5] https://gitlab.com/lordheavy/gambas/commits/meson-test