[GRASS-dev] Starting on Sunday: GRASS GIS Community Sprint - OSGeo Sprint 2018

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Dear all,

a few days left to meet many of you at the
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Community_Sprint_Bonn_2018

We have a lot of interesting topics on the agenda (new Web site,
functionality, source code management, GRASS GIS 8 discussions and
more) - please see the Wiki page.

If you cannot be there please join virtually throughout the next week.

Best
Markus

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:

We have a lot of interesting topics on the agenda ... source code
management

Markus,

  Perhaps you developers would discuss moving the repository from subversion
to git. Git has excellent multi-user support which is better than subversion
or mercurial from the research I did before switching my use to git.

Yes, as you see that discussion is on the agenda :slight_smile:

To be considered: all branches back to GRASS GIS 5 have to be ported.
And other projects struggled with that quite a bit (AFAIK also a
reason that GDAL is on SVN yet).
Anyway, to be discussed in a separate thread.

Markus

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:

We have a lot of interesting topics on the agenda ... source code
management

Markus,

   Perhaps you developers would discuss moving the repository from subversion
to git. Git has excellent multi-user support which is better than subversion
or mercurial from the research I did before switching my use to git.

   Just a couple of Euros worth of opinion.

Best regards,

Rich

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:

To be considered: all branches back to GRASS GIS 5 have to be ported. And
other projects struggled with that quite a bit (AFAIK also a reason that
GDAL is on SVN yet).

Anyway, to be discussed in a separate thread.

Markus,

   I'm not a full-time developer, but this thread (and embedded link to Paul
Dowman's process) looks like it make the transition quick, easy, and
complete: <https://tinyurl.com/ydhbs2sk&gt;\.

   And here's the URL for Paul Dowman's web page that looks like it has the
answers all of you want: <https://tinyurl.com/y75cy55k&gt;\.

   Have fun!

Best regards,

Rich