Checkbox VCS is Git as of today!

[Ara Pulido]

Congrats on the transition!



On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Sylvain Pineau <
sylvain.pineau at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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