Git/Conversion/status

Last update on: 2011-11-30

2011-09-22
Rob Lanphier proposed a draft plan on the wikitech-l mailing list.

2011-09-30
Rob Lanphier proposed a draft plan to proceed to a migration to git over the following months, and got a positive response from developers.

2011-10-31
Chad Horohoe started to prepare for the migration to git; he wrote a script to compare LDAP accounts to the information stored in Code review, and prepared for conversion tests from the current Subversion repository. An important step in the conversion is having names and email addresses for all committers, since neither Git nor Gerrit function well without them. As of this writing, 26 committers do not have any contact information, and 25 have a name but no e-mail address. Please help by filling in the names of committers you know. 

2011-11-16
Chad is down to one last email address of a committer to confirm, then a full import will happen. He has already started a partial import (up to r100000), and will do the complete import once that is done.

2011-11-30
Chad Horohoe got a lot of help from the community on identifying unknown committers; user mapping is now complete. Gitorious was installed on a virtual machine, and a test git conversion of the MediaWiki code repository is now imminent. Meanwhile, there have also been discussions about e-mail aliases for LDAP users, to avoid disclosing private e-mail addresses. Chad and Brion Vibber worked on changes to the development workflow introduced by the move to git (e.g., when continuous integration tests get run).

2011-12-19
Have currently working conversion of MediaWiki core in Gerrit and are sorting out the permission model. We're having two meetings this week (both on Dec. 19th) to help hammer out the details. Join us in #wikimedia-dev!