[SLING-7183] Update old 'sling' github mirror to reflect Git migration

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Best practices
• Assignee: Robert Munteanu
• Reporter: Robert Munteanu
• Created: 09/Oct/17 15:07
• Updated: 04/Dec/17 21:51
• Resolved: 04/Dec/17 21:51

Description

We had some long discussions on the dev@list ( see for instance What to do with github.com/apache/sling and came to the conclusion that we can't delete the old sling github mirror. If we do that, all links to commits and pull requests would be broken. A couple of ideas were circulated:

• change the default branch to archived and add only a README file ( the branch exists, but default was not changed - https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/archived )
• delete the contents of the trunk branch and leave just a README ; also tag the last state of trunk to keep the commits around ( this breaks links that include 'trunk' though )
• rename the repo to sling-something-else ; git will generate redirects

For whatever we decided to do we need to decide first and then ask infra for assistance - we can't change the git repo setup ourselves.