On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Tim Felgentreff
<timfelgentreff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,

Very impressive work, Tim&Fabio ! The power of full-automation !

> as of 7:30 UTC the entire history of the SVN up to SVN revision 3745 was
> migrated to GitHub. Automatic builds are running
> (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/timfel/vm/branch/Cog,
> https://travis-ci.org/OpenSmalltalk/vm) and binary artifacts are uploaded
> (https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files).

About uploading binary artifacts, this is something I asked and this
nice that Fabio
make it work :-)

Apparently there is some problems with some artifacts that have a
double .zip extension.

> Right now we have enabled all platform, object memory and bytecode set
> combinations that I found build scripts for - most work, but OS X 64-bit
> Sista is failing right now (32-bit works). At some point we'll have to
> decide which combinations to put into the CI config as "allowed failures" to
> get a green badge :)
>
> Another thing for those not familiar with Git: Right now the entire
> repository is 360MB, including all history. Most of that is old images that
> were at one point committed to SVN and that have been pulled into the
> repository. We could clean those out (removing them from the history) to
> make the repository smaller, but I felt ~400MB is still ok (albeit
> technically over the Github quota. We'll see of they complain). I would like
> to ask everyone to stop committing large binary files into the repository,
> however. Git is simply not very suited to dealing with binaries. If there is
> a need for that, Github has support for git-lfs, which offers 1GB of free
> storage with a 1GB bandwith limit per month. If we need more, we can look at
> the different billing levels.
>
> If you're familiar with Git, the only new thing to watch out for is the
> updateSCSSVersions script as described in the README. It's not relevant for
> the CI, but your own binaries will only show correct versions if this script
> runs at appropriate times.
>
> If you are not familiar with Git and don't care, there are scripts for
> committing that should take care of everything as described in the README.
> Again, let us know if anything doesn't work. The only difference vs SVN to
> watch out for for you will be that the old scripts/svnci would commit your
> changes to the server, whereas the scripts/gitci script only commits them
> locally. You'll have to run `git pull` and `git push` to get them up to the
> server.
>
> If you have any questions regarding the repository setup please don't
> hesitate to ask. You shouldn't be able to break anything, since we've
> disabled force pushes to both master and Cog (and thus any chance of
> destroying history).

What is favorite way of contributing for people outside the vm team ?
pull-requests ?

Regards,
-- 
Serge Stinckwich
UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC)
Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/