Project Panama is moving to GitHub

Thu Jan 23 18:16:18 UTC 2020

I've already chatted with Erik in this direction and we were thinking of 
Feb 4th as transition date - would that work?

Maurizio

On 23/01/2020 18:01, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> I fully support the move to GitHub, but would like to suggest 
> postponing it for Vector API project.
>
> Currently, the project goes through a major refactoring and I'm afraid 
> that in the short term the adaption to new workflow will slow us down.
>
> I suggest to do the switch once most of the planned work land in the 
> repository.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov
>
> On 15.01.2020 02:30, Viswanathan, Sandhya wrote:
>> The move and split are ok from our side as well.  We would need the 
>> automerge feature for "vector" also going forward.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Sandhya
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: panama-dev <panama-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of 
>> Paul Sandoz
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:51 AM
>> To: Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
>> Cc: Erik Duveblad <erik.helin at oracle.com>; Robin Westberg 
>> <robin.westberg at oracle.com>; panama-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: Project Panama is moving to GitHub
>>
>> Likewise, I support the move and split, with the few weeks heads up.
>>
>> Panama covers a wide area, in the future there might be other 
>> technically non-intersecting but complementary repos under Project 
>> Panama’s vision and governance.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>> On Jan 14, 2020, at 7:08 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore 
>>> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I support both:
>>>
>>> * moving to Git
>>> * adopting the PR model
>>> * splitting vector from ffi support - we already have different set 
>>> of requirements for these two pieces (e.g. ffi branches are 
>>> automerged, vector ones are not), so IMHO it makes sense to split, 
>>> now that we have the ability to do so.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Maurizio
>>>
>>> On 14/01/2020 15:05, Jorn Vernee wrote:
>>>> Adding Robin to CCs again, this time without a typo in the email 
>>>> address.
>>>>
>>>> Jorn
>>>>
>>>> On 14/01/2020 15:58, Jorn Vernee wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> You might have heard that there is an OpenJDK project named Skara 
>>>>> evaluating and trialing using Git for OpenJDK and GitHub for 
>>>>> hosting the repositories [1]. We have been asked to try out Git, 
>>>>> GitHub and the Skara tooling, as a means of validating, and to 
>>>>> provide feedback about the Project Skara effort. There is already 
>>>>> a number of OpenJDK projects using Git, GitHub and Skara:
>>>>> - OpenJFX
>>>>> - OpenJMC
>>>>> - Loom
>>>>> - Mobile
>>>>> - Skara
>>>>>
>>>>> A transition entails switching to Git as an SCM (see the Git 
>>>>> manual [2]), and the repository would be hosted on GitHub [3]. 
>>>>> After the transition, the current Mercurial repository would no 
>>>>> longer be updated. There is currently already a read-only mirror 
>>>>> in place [4], which you can use to try out Git and some of the 
>>>>> tooling, though submitting pull requests and pushing there are 
>>>>> currently not supported.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest that project Panama transition to git, GitHub and Skara 
>>>>> and that we set the target date for the transition to around 2 
>>>>> weeks from now. For example Monday the 27th of January, or 
>>>>> otherwise later if people need more time to prepare. I also 
>>>>> suggest we adopt GitHub's pull request workflow together with the 
>>>>> bots from project Skara.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adopting pull requests and the Skara bots means that the review 
>>>>> process would work partly through GitHub. In particular, all 
>>>>> changes must start out as pull requests. Skara automatically 
>>>>> generates webrevs, "RFR" emails and supports bi-directional 
>>>>> syncing between mailing lists and GitHub for those that prefer 
>>>>> using webrev and the mailing lists. If you are unfamiliar with 
>>>>> GitHub and pull requests, I suggest checking out GitHub's guide 
>>>>> [5]. Note that project Skara also provides CLI tools for 
>>>>> interacting with GitHub for those that prefer working from a 
>>>>> terminal. You can find more info about these tools on the Skara 
>>>>> wiki page [6] or from the Skara README [7].
>>>>>
>>>>> One question I would like to discuss is whether we should split 
>>>>> the current repository into two; one repository for the ffi work 
>>>>> and one repository for the vector API work (named e.g. panama-ffi 
>>>>> and panama-vector). Having these two distinct features in separate 
>>>>> repositories might make it easier for newcomers and followers to 
>>>>> understand where the latest changes are. We would still share the 
>>>>> same mailing list, but having two repositories would separate the 
>>>>> streams of traffic on GitHub, i.e. each project would have it's 
>>>>> own, separate, set of pull requests.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have any comments or questions regarding this transition, 
>>>>> please reply to this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jorn
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] : https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369 [2] :
>>>>> https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual
>>>>> [3] : https://github.com/
>>>>> [4] : https://github.com/openjdk/panama [5] :
>>>>> https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
>>>>> [6] : https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/Skara
>>>>> [7] : https://github.com/openjdk/skara
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>