On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:36:30PM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Fri 21 Sep 2012, Bob Walker bob@randomness.org.uk wrote:
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.
indeed it is. there are of course other hosting providers but github is the slickest and most widely known. their recent round of fundign means they probaly arnt going anywhere any time soon and they were already self funding anyway.
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 :)
github with its pull requests does at least lower the barrier to entry of trying to provide patches.
Don't forget about the auxillary stuff in the current subversion repo; some of that at least will need to stay in subversion.
i had only intended to do the main code base for the time being. The other bits indeed will have to be looked at in due course.
If the 3 of us are in agreement I suggest I carry on with switching us over.