Re-enabling commits in Gerrit

[Matthew Dempsky]

tl;dr: We’re enabling commits in Gerrit, so you’ll be able to land patches directly on gwt.googlesource.com instead of needing a Googler to merge them internally for you.

We’ve finally gotten things in place internally so we can change the mirroring strategy from “google -> subversion -> git” to “git -> google -> subversion”.  (We’re going to keep Subversion around in the interim in case something goes wrong and we need to switch back.)

As such, we'll soon re-enable +2’s in Gerrit and start allowing commits directly to Git.  Since this is a big change from the current workflow, we’re going to try to take things slowly to start just so we can make sure everything’s working how we envision.  We’ll also work on formalizing some development practices.  As we feel more confident in the process, I expect things will speed up and contributing should be much easier.

Also, we still plan to re-spin the Git repository in the near future to clean up some accumulated history cruft (e.g., the old plugins binaries).  We’ll send out more announcements about that once we’re prepared to make that change.

Thanks for your patience!

[Matthew Dempsky]

FYI, this is now live.  Members of the gwt-maintainers group have +2 code-review and submit permissions again.

[Thomas Broyer]

Just to clarify: does that mean the SVN is now "dead"? (except for GWT_TOOLS)

Anyway, thanks a lot for your work Matthew!

[Matthew Dempsky]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Thomas Broyer <t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to clarify: does that mean the SVN is now "dead"? (except for GWT_TOOLS)

Pretty much, unless something really serious comes up that forces us to temporarily switch back.  We'll continue mirroring to subversion for the time being, but developers and contributors should switch to using Git if they haven't already.