New candidate JEP: 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git

[Mario Torre]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 12:23 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
>
> Le 16/07/2019 à 11:49, Mario Torre a écrit :
>
> > and from what I see tooling support and size
> > of the download are the two only reason to use git
> One obvious benefit that is worth mentioning in the JEP I think is that
> Git is significantly more popular than Mercurial, and using what becomes
> a standard tool lowers the barrier of entry for new contributors. A mere
> read-only Git mirror doesn't help unifying the community around a common
> set of tools and workflows.

Maybe, but I don't think this is a real problem. The entry barrier to
contribution is high not because of git vs mercurial, but because of
the process itself, even if we were to move to GitHub I doubt that
would change. For example, we still don't allow anyone to file a bug
report on the project bug database unless they are at least Authors
and a bug id is required for any push to take place. Can you see this
changing to allow random push request over GitHub?

Cheers,
Mario


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