On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for sharing these Sumana. One thing I haven't really seen mentioned anywhere is what's going to happen with the WIkimedia repository (rather than the MediaWiki repository) and how that figures into the roadmap/conversion schedule. Chad or Sumana, can you shed some light on this?
I totally want to apologize for delaying in responding on this. Somehow it got past my inbox and I missed it until I was looking for another e-mail.
The main point I want to reiterate for everyone is that there is no deadline. MediaWiki and its extensions are on a pretty firm migration path right now and we've got dates pencilled in for when we'd like to finish converting. Converting these parts of the repository are going to be the hardest anyway, so once we've cleared that hump hopefully it'll be trivial to migrate the remaining projects.
I know fundraising is on a different schedule than everyone else, so that's perfectly ok and we can look to a time after the main migrations are done that will work well for you guys too.
I've mentioned this number in a couple of places, but I think I'll say it here too so everyone's clear: I'd like to have the svn repository completely read-only by this time next year (very roughly). If you've got a project that you're maintaining in svn (other than core or extensions), now's the time to start thinking about where you want it to eventually end up. If you're wanting to move to git with the rest of us, the WMF git repo will obviously welcome any existing svn project. If you're wanting to stick with svn or go another route--let me know, I'll be happy to work with you to figure something out.
-Chad