[sakai-core-team] Contrib tools in github

[Earle Nietzel]

I would prefer each project having its own github project as I think that
makes it the easiest to manage. The all we need to do is come up with a
decent approach (maybe git submodules) for integrating them.

The biggest issue that I can see with using one git repo for all of contrib
is its like to be more complicated to include only parts of contrib...

I am on the side of whichever is easier to work with and avoid anything
complex.



On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If we can do it easily enough in the main organisation then that sounds
> good. The submodules might work if we document it well.
>
> FWIW I created the authors file, and have migrated a bunch of my stuff up
> to github via svn2git:
> svn2git -v https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/some/project --trunk /
> --nobranches --notags --authors ~/path/to/authors.txt
>
> Then added the remote and pushed it. Pretty simple.
>
> So what do we think, do we want to migrate contrib stuff to a contrib repo
> in the main Sakai organisaion? (I do). Start with the main ones, trunk
> only, SVN can remain for a while with the older tags just like the main
> repo. I can migrate them up piecemeal as I've been doing with my own.
>
> Whats the process for the git submodules?
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Matthew Buckett <
> matthew.buckett at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 8 February 2015 at 10:35, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Just wondering if we have a process for getting a contrib tool into
>> github?
>> > Specifically Evaluations. I would like to contribute some work to it
>> and the
>> > SVN way is so clunky now we have decent tools.
>> >
>> > 1. Do we have a Sakai contrib repo? Do we plan to have one or is it
>> expected
>> > that contrib tools would remain in the wild until they get into core?
>>
>> I haven't seen a contrib repo, I would expect that each project would
>> get it's own git project rather than having one git repository for all
>> contrib stuff.
>>
>> I think in the past I think contrib was used for 2 main purposes:
>>
>> - projects local to school, (eg
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/uct/) - in the github world
>> there's no reason why these cans just live in an institution's
>> organisation until they start getting used by multiple schools.
>> - shared projects that aren't part of sakai,
>> (https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/evaluation/) - these are the
>> projects that we want to allow people to find easily but aren't
>> actually part of Sakai.
>>
>> I can see that it might be worth having a contrib github organisation
>> might be useful to allow people to easily find projects related to
>> Sakai, however there's no reason we couldn't just create teams within
>> the main Sakai organisation and have the repos in there. If we created
>> a sakaicontrib organisation then we have to manage the admins across
>> multiple places now, so why not just add projects that are shared
>> between institutions to the main organisation?
>>
>> The scripts that I used for the main Sakai repository are here:
>> https://github.com/buckett/svn-git-scripts
>> However these are mainly for merging multiple repositories into one.
>>
>> > 2. Do we have a documented way to get tools from SVN to github? I have
>> done
>> > it before (years ago) but assume the process has changed a bit.
>>
>> In most cases if you grab the authors file:
>> https://github.com/buckett/svn-git-scripts/blob/master/authors-all.txt
>> then use it, however contrib has people that aren't in the main
>> codebase so it's nice if you can update it for the extras
>>
>> Get list of all authors:
>>
>> svn log https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/evaluation/ | tr ' '
>> '\n' | grep '. at .' | sort | uniq
>>
>> Check that these all exist in authors-all.txt, add people that don't.
>>
>> git svn clone -s -t  -A authors-all.txt --prefix=origin/
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/evaluation/ evaluation
>>
>> this will probably fail, but you cd into the folder and just run:
>>
>> git svn fetch
>>
>> until it gets all the way.
>> Then you can add the github remote:
>>
>> git remote add github git at github.com:sakaiproject/evaluation
>>
>> And push:
>>
>> git push github
>>
>> This should keep all the tags and branches, although all feature
>> branches that never got merged can probably be dropped.
>>
>> > 3. What do we think about Evaluations and maybe a few of the other
>> popular
>> > tools being moved?
>>
>> I think it makes sense. Then people can pull them into their sakai
>> builds with git submodules (urrg), but it makes getting patches back
>> easier.
>>
>> --
>>   Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford
>>
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earle,
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