[lldb-dev] [cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] Updates on SVN to GitHub migration

Nico Weber via lldb-dev lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 7 15:21:30 PST 2019


(I wanted to ask about another update, but it looks like there was one
posted to llvm-dev today:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-January/128840.html
Mentioning this for others who subscribe to cfe-dev or similar but not
llvm-dev.)

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:58 PM Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the update!
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:55 PM Tom Stellard <tstellar at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/2018 10:38 AM, Nico Weber wrote:
>> > Here's another question about the current status of this. It's close to
>> two months after the official monorepo was supposed to be published. Can
>> someone give an update? Is this on hold indefinitely? Are there concrete
>> issues that people are working on and this will happen as soon as those are
>> resolved?
>> >
>>
>> There were some issues raised in the thread on llvm-dev:
>> "Dealing with out of tree changes and the LLVM  git monorepo"  This
>> migration
>> has been delayed while discussing these issues.  Discussion on that
>> thread has died down and it seems like the consensus is to move forward
>> with
>> the original plan, but we are waiting to get some formal closure on that
>> thread.
>>
>> > At the least, I'm assuming the "SVN will shut down 1 year from now"
>> refers to 1 year from when the monorepo actually gets published, not 1 year
>> relative to when the initial mail got sent?
>> >
>>
>> The deadline for SVN shutdown remains unchanged.  It's still going to be
>> around the 2019 LLVM Developers meeting.
>>
>> > Someone mentioned an issue with github's svn bridge, but it wasn't
>> clear if that's blocking, and if it is if there's a plan for it.
>> >
>>
>> It's not a blocking issue and there haven't been any updates lately,
>> you can follow status on this bug:
>> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39396
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> > Thanks
>> > Nico
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 4:10 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via cfe-dev <
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     (+openmp-dev, they should know about this!)
>> >
>> >     Recapping the "Concerns"
>> >     (https://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/GitHubMove.html#id12) there is a
>> >     proposal of "single-subproject Git mirrors" for people who are only
>> >     contributing to standalone subprojects. I think this will be easy
>> in the
>> >     transition period, we can just continue to move the current
>> official git
>> >     mirrors. Will this "service" be continued after GitHub becomes the
>> 'one
>> >     source of truth'? I'd strongly vote for yes, but I'm not sure how
>> that's
>> >     going to work on a technical level.
>> >
>> >     Thanks,
>> >     Jonas
>> >
>> >     On 2018-10-20 03:14, Tom Stellard via llvm-dev wrote:
>> >     > On 10/19/2018 05:47 PM, Tom Stellard via lldb-dev wrote:
>> >     >> TLDR: Official monorepo repository will be published on
>> >     >> Tuesday, Oct 23, 2018.  After this date, you should modify
>> >     >> your workflows to use the monorepo ASAP.  Current workflows
>> >     >> will be supported for at most 1 more year.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> Hi,
>> >     >>
>> >     >> We had 2 round-tables this week at the Developer Meeting to
>> >     >> discuss the SVN to GitHub migration, and I wanted to update
>> >     >> the rest of the community on what we discussed.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> The most important outcome from that meeting is that we
>> >     >> now have a timeline for completing the transition which looks
>> >     >> like this:
>> >     >>
>> >     >
>> >     > Step 1:
>> >     >> Tues Oct 23, 2018:
>> >     >>
>> >     >> The latest monorepo prototype[1] will be moved over to the LLVM
>> >     >> organization github project[2] and will begin mirroring the
>> current
>> >     >> SVN repository.  Commits will still be made to the SVN repository
>> >     >> just as they are today.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> All community members should begin migrating their workflows that
>> >     >> rely on SVN or the current git mirrors to use the new monorepo.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> For CI jobs or internal mirrors pulling from SVN or
>> >     >> http://llvm.org/git/*.git you should modify them to pull from
>> >     >> the new monorepo and also to deal with the new repository
>> >     >> layout.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> For Developers, you should begin using the new monorepo
>> >     >> for your development and using the provided scripts[3]
>> >     >> to commit your code.  These scripts will allow to commit
>> >     >> to SVN from the monorepo without using git-svn
>> >     >>
>> >     >>
>> >     >
>> >     > Sorry hit send before I was done.  Here is the rest of the mail:
>> >     >
>> >     > Step 2:
>> >     >
>> >     > Around the time of next year's developer meeting (1 year at the
>> most),
>> >     > we will turn off commit access to the SVN server and enable commit
>> >     > access to the monorepo.  At this point the monorepo will become
>> the
>> >     > 'one source of truth' for the project.  Community members *must*
>> have
>> >     > updated their workflows by this date and are encouraged to begin
>> >     > updating workflows ASAP.
>> >     >
>> >     > A lot of people asked at the developer meeting about the future
>> >     > of bugzilla and phabricator and whether or not we will use
>> >     > github issues and pull requests.  These are important questions,
>> >     > but are unrelated to the migration of the code.
>> >     >
>> >     > We also came up with a TODO list for things we want to accomplish
>> >     > as a community in the next year and beyond related to github.  I
>> >     > am working on putting these into bugzilla so we can track progress
>> >     > better and I will send a follow-up email about this.
>> >     >
>> >     > -Tom
>> >     >
>> >     >>
>> >     >>
>> >     >>
>> >     >>
>> >     >> [1] https://github.com/llvm-git-prototype/llvm
>> >     >> [2] https://github.com/llvm/
>> >     >> [3]
>> >     >>
>> https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#for-developers-to-work-with-a-git-monorepo
>> >     >>
>> >     >>
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