Thanks, Baptiste. Will check the sanity WRT licensing and document it when migrating back to Mojo. Just remember that I am not a Lawyer ...
2013/8/1 Baptiste MATHUS <[email protected]> > Hi Lennart, > > About licensing, I think/seem to remember it's up to the mojo creator to > choose the license (as long as it's an OSS one, sure, I suppose). > Seems to me that relicensing an existing project is at least subject to > original authors acceptation. > > Btw, when confirmed it'd be great if you can enrich the mojo website with > the corresponding information. > > Cheers > Le 4 juil. 2013 04:21, "Lennart Jörelid" <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > All right - I started a PoC by simply making a git svn clone of the >> AspectJ maven plugin's trunk (our SVN repo is not structured in a manner >> which lends it to simple conversion preserving all tags following a git/svn >> cloning). >> >> Although I have not put a lot of hours into validating the consistency of >> the git repository, it is certainly enough for starting the much needed >> work. My plan is doing the modernization job in Git and push back changes >> into SVN at decently regular intervals. >> >> One question which immediately pops up is the licensing WRT the AspectJ >> maven plugin. >> The LICENSE.txt file is an MIT license, rather than, say, Apache2. What >> is our praxis here? Leave the MIT license, or attempt to migrate to another? >> >> >> 2013/6/29 Baptiste MATHUS <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2013/6/29 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Saturday, 29 June 2013, Fred Cooke wrote: >>>> >>>>> You forgot that Maven tooling is in many ways not working correctly >>>>> for DVCS users, especially the majority who are using Git. >>>> >>>> >>>> Or is it that the majority of people using git and maven want to use >>>> git in a different way from the way that works best with maven? >>>> >>>> I use maven and git all the time in my day job and personal projects. I >>>> have yet to find any issue other than the mutability of git tags... Which >>>> is not a major issue for me. >>>> >>> >>> +1. I wanted to comment on that point too and forgot. >>> We've been using Git & Maven for 3 years at job, and use the m-release-p >>> on many multimodules projects without issue. >>> So I don't understand what your general point is about. There sure may >>> be some cases where this is complicated, but I don't see us at mojo be >>> concerned. >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Perhaps the issue is actually the git usage pattern of others being >>>> poorly aligned with maven. >>>> >>>> Btw do not confuse debate over the content of release vote emails with >>>> potential issues in the release plugin. >>>> >>>> (Personally I view version numbers as cheap, so I don't respin borked >>>> releases with the same version number in day job or personal projects, so >>>> that may "streamline" away some potential issues) >>>> >>>> For this reason if there was any voting going on, which this thread >>>>> wasn't about anyway, I'd vote +1 for mirroring experiment and -1 for >>>>> ditching SVN all together at this point ("migration"), no matter how much >>>>> I >>>>> hate it. >>>>> >>>> >>> I don't think we actually want SVN to be "ditched" immediately after the >>> migration. >>> Just set it readonly so that people don't commit there by mistake. >>> That's what we did some years ago when switching from svn to many Git >>> repos. And those SVN repos are still accessible today on the corp svn >>> server, though I don't think many people go there. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> -- Baptiste >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> +==============================+ >> | Bästa hälsningar, >> | [sw. "Best regards"] >> | >> | Lennart Jörelid >> | EAI Architect & Integrator >> | >> | jGuru Europe AB >> | Mölnlycke - Kista >> | >> | Email: [email protected] >> | URL: www.jguru.se >> | Phone >> | (skype): jgurueurope >> | (intl): +46 708 507 603 >> | (domestic): 0708 - 507 603 >> +==============================+ >> >> -- -- +==============================+ | Bästa hälsningar, | [sw. "Best regards"] | | Lennart Jörelid | EAI Architect & Integrator | | jGuru Europe AB | Mölnlycke - Kista | | Email: [email protected] | URL: www.jguru.se | Phone | (skype): jgurueurope | (intl): +46 708 507 603 | (domestic): 0708 - 507 603 +==============================+
