[cmake-developers] [ANNOUNCE] CMake merge process transition

[Brad King]

On 03/02/2017 03:55 PM, Brad King wrote:
> Once we have actually made the final transition I'll merge the new
> instructions and post a link here to their final URL.

The transition is complete!  Documentation of the review process is
now rendered directly on the gitlab repo page [1].  The canonical
entry point for contributors is still the CONTRIBUTING.rst file [2].
There is also a new place to index developer documentation [3].

[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Help/dev/review.rst
[2] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
[3] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Help/dev/README.rst


CONTRIBUTING.rst now suggests running `Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh`.
This script has been updated [4] to drop the old configuration of ssh
access to cmake.org repositories.  It is now suitable for all contributors
to run.

[4] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/546

> Furthermore, the staging branch will not be published as an official
> branch under refs/heads/ on the gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake repo.
> Instead it will be in a custom refs/ path that Git does not clone or
> fetch by default.  CTest scripts used to drive nightly testing will
> need to be adapted for this.  I'll post more information for those of
> you running nightly builds once we are ready to update the clients.

For now the nightly builds will continue to work as before, fetching
from the cmake.org repository.  The `master`, `nightly-master`, `next`,
and `nightly` branches there are now all maintained by a robot that
mirrors the equivalent new refs in the gitlab repository.  I have some
CTest script updates to move clients to following the gitlab repository
directly and will work on deploying them soon.

-Brad