Tsan project transition towards Git, GitHub, and Skara

[Jean Christophe Beyler]

Hi all,

This transition is now done! If you have any questions about it or how to
now contribute, let us know!

Thanks to the Skara team for making this so easy :)
Jc

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:54 PM Jean Christophe Beyler <jcbeyler at google.com>
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 are already a number of OpenJDK projects
> using Git, GitHub and Skara:
> - Loom
> - Panama
> - Valhalla
> - Metropolis
> - Portola
> - Lanai
> - OpenJFX
> - OpenJMC
>
> A transition entails switching to Git as an SCM [2], and the repository
> would be hosted on GitHub [3]. After the transition, the current
> Mercurial repository would no longer be updated. There is already a
> read-only mirror of Tsan in place [4], you can it use to try out Git and
> some of the tooling, though submitting pull requests and pushing will
> not work (as it is a read-only mirror).
>
> I suggest that project Tsan transition to Git, GitHub and Skara and that
> we set the target date for the transition to April 2. 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].
>
> If you have any comments or questions regarding this transition, please
> reply to this thread.
>
> Thanks,
> Jc
>
> [1] : https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369
> [2] : https://git-scm.com/
> [3] : https://github.com/
> [4] : https://github.com/openjdk/tsan
> [5] : https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
> [6] : https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/Skara
>


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Thanks,
Jc