On Sep 14, 2010, at 8:12 AM, James Strachan wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps we should create a special location:
>>>>
>>>> http://github.com/Jersey
>>>>
>>>> and then we can also provide details on the relationship to the
>>>> java.net
>>>> repo, the SCA and license guidance?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well this means having a new user which in this case should be
>>> "oracle" same as Apache (http://github.com/apache), so I am not in
>>> favor. In addition as it will be a mirror, IMHO, its not needed
>>> unless
>>> you insist.
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure it needs to be like that, it could be just the name
>> of the
>> project. For example look at Atmosphere or Scalate
>>
>> http://github.com/Atmosphere
>> http://github.com/scalate/
>>
>> For Jersey , it should just be the set of "mirrored" repositories to
>> java.net associated with the Jersey project. In this case we would
>> just have
>> one for now.
>>
>> That way you could clone from the Jersey one and we could managed the
>> syncing with SVN so you do not have to :-)
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Having a github mirror is great for letting folks contribute patches;
> which over time (once the SLA is vetted etc) can be contributed back
> to the main repo. Ideally its even better if you just ditch the svn
> and keep a git repo as the main read/write repo :)
>
Yeah, for now i have to stick with SVN hosted at java.net and it be
the canonical code base, but i hope we may have some news on that
front w.r.t. SVN and migration to kenai some time this year.
> FWIW all apache projects have a mirror at github too...
> http://git.apache.org/
>
> e.g.
>
> http://github.com/apache/camel
>
> BTW Paul, github URLs require...
>
> github.com/userOrTeam/repo
>
> So we could use one of these...
>
> github.com/oracle/jersey
> github.com/javanet/jersey
> github.com/jersey/jersey
> github.com/psandoz/jersey
>
>
> FWIW scalate is at http://github.com/scalate/scalate (there's a
> user/team called "scalate")
>
Yes, i like that approach of a "jersey" team identity (especially
since there is no co-ordinated effort in terms of company or java.net
identity so it is best to leave that alone for now)
Imran is something you would be happy with too?
Paul.