Another JBoss GitHub repository mirror

August 30th, 2008

For those of you playing along at home, I’ve added jboss-deployers to my GitHub mirror set.  Like the others, the ‘vendor’ branch is the one you want.

jboss-deployers
jbossas
microcontainer
vfs

I’m adding JBoss projects to my mirror set as I trip across the need to browse their source.  If there’s a JBoss project you’d like to see mirrored out [...]

Be a smarter patch monkey

August 24th, 2008

A project I’m working on requires some hard-core monkey-patching of Rails internals.
Monkey-patching is a dangerous occupation, and liable to cause new and intriguing bugs into previously-tested sane code.
I’ve been working on a smarter patch-monkey, known as Lemur.
The goal is to allow monkey-patched methods (currently only instance methods are supported) to be written in modules that [...]

GitHub Mirrors for some JBoss Projects

August 21st, 2008

In addition to the previously-mentioned JRuby mirror from Codehaus SVN to GitHub, I’m now also mirroring:

JBoss Microcontainer
JBoss AS5
JRuby

All are trunk-only mirrors, not picking up branches or tags. Since the JBoss repository path has about 77,000 subversion revisions, and at one point held any and all JBoss software ever written, I have not mirrored it [...]

Mirroring SVN repository to GitHub

August 20th, 2008

So, I’m gearing up to work on some Java+Ruby (via JRuby) stuff. The Java world still seems fairly entrenched in the cult of Subversion, while the Rubyists have gone with Git lately.
I’m still wrapping my mind around Git, but with GitHub, it’s fairly easy and straight-forward. I paid my $7 for the micro [...]