Scm/GitMigrationPlan
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Git Migration Plan
Goal
Migrate Gecko, Firefox, and Firefox for Android source code repositories from Mercurial to Git.
Scope
- In scope
- Gecko, Firefox, and Firefox for Android source code repositories and associated tooling
- Out of scope
- All other project repositories including those hosted at github.com
Duration
TBD
Communication
| Communication Type | Mechanism | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| General discussion | dev-platform list | devs |
People
list required competencies for people and, once defined, the people working on project. note that not all of these competencies will be required for every project
| Project Champion | Bob Moss |
| Program Management | Lawrence Mandel |
| Engineering | Johnny Stenback |
| Other Engineering | subject matter experts contributing to project |
| Accessibility | |
| Localization | Axel Hect |
| QA | |
| Security | |
| Releng | John O'Duinn |
Tasks
- Add Git to build tools (khuey)
- Fix Git Windows performance (johns)
- Pushlog equivalent needs to be created for Git (ted)
- tbpl must be updated to support Git or an equivalent system put in place (tbpl2?) (ryanvm, emorley)
- Repository hooks need to be ported to Git
- tree closure
- approval required
- try syntax
- l10n change protector for aurora + beta (not yet implemented - bug 859358)
- RIL IDL hook (not yet implemented - bug 813809)
- RIL IDL hook for b2g18 (not yet implemented - bug 862411)
- Releng (joduinn)
- Nightly about:buildconfig update to link to Git revision
- buildbot update to pull from Git instead of Hg
- crash-stats must be updated to support Git (bsmedberg)
- hg repository and changeset information collection for symbol collection
- Windows "source server" support
- l10n tooling must be updated to support Git (axel?)
- scale git.mozilla.org infrastructure (fox2mike)
- Third party tools currently in use by dev community?
- Dave Townsend's HG Change Feed
- Thunderbird needs to pull M-C from Git
