Checkbox VCS is Git as of today!

[Sylvain Pineau]

Hi,

As of today, the checkbox development will use Git for version control, 
saying
goodbye to bzr and lp:checkbox.

The list of checkbox projects is always available at 
pad.lv/p/checkbox-project.

To help you start working with git, I've created a small bootstrap 
script [1]
taking care of cloning all the repositories and recreating the same tree
structure than the one we had with bzr. One benefit is that you can 
still use
mk-venv:

     ./bootstrap_checkbox_project.sh
     cd checkbox-project
     mk-venv

The PMR [2] instance running under the ce-certification-qa user will now
process your merge proposals and Tarmac will stop looking at lp:checkbox.

Daily builds in the dev ppa [3] are already building debian packages using
git-build-recipe and the same git-dpm packaging branches that we have in 
Debian
[4]. If you have work-in-progress bzr branches, please create new merge
requests but this time from a git repository that you own.

Even if the switch from bzr to Git can be done today, a few action items 
still
have to be completed, such as:

  - Set up git recipes for testing/stable ppa
  - Fixing autopilot in mini-ci (i.e clone lp:plainbox)
  - ReadTheDoc update, pull from git repo now, not bzr trunk
  - Re setup lp automatic translations

I'll post another update once everything is completed.
But hey it's time to profit and enjoy working with git NATIVELY :)

Thank you ~checkbox-dev for all your help and contributions.

Sylvain Pineau

[1] https://goo.gl/ktVTBL
[2] https://github.com/checkbox/pmr
[3] https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
[4] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sylvain.pineau@canonical.com