On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:36:30PM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Fri 21 Sep 2012, Bob Walker bob@randomness.org.uk wrote:
Git is the future. Github is the convient place for open source projects to host their code.
So I propose we think about moving to github.
Very sorry for slow reply to this, especially as I specifically asked you to post about it.
I am in favour of this plan. Git does indeed seem to be the future, and I'm generally happy with my (limited) experience of it so far. I would like to become more familiar with it, and using it for OpenGuides code would be a good way to do this.
I wonder if this would also be a good opportunity to encourage people who've contributed to OpenGuides in the past, or people who've said they want to but haven't got around to it yet, to join in with development? You too can gain Git experience! Or indeed share your existing Git experience with newbies like me! I reckon there are plenty of minor issues/improvements that we could all work on to help us get comfortable with the new system.
Anyone else got thoughts?
I'm generally in favour of git. I am a bit reluctant to see so many eggs being put in the github basket, but I'm probably in the minority there, and ultimately, git's distributed nature is a defence against this.
I had toyed with the idea of setting up a hosted git repo capability on urchin, but that probably isn't going to happen any time soon.
I am skeptical about the power of git to pull in new blood, but I'd love to be proved wrong :)
Don't forget about the auxillary stuff in the current subversion repo; some of that at least will need to stay in subversion.
Cheers, Dominic.