The world is moving forward and the choice for doing your version control is changing. 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. Ive already explored this as an idea and in fact have created and organization and imported the code repo. https://github.com/OpenGuides/OpenGuides
The authors may need tidying up a bit. Looking at my authors file there were 2 who i dont know what to use as thier email address.
nick = nick nick@example.com sheldon = sheldon sheldon@example.com
It should prefably be the email address they use on github but it doestn matter to much.
Importing the wiki and the issues looks to be trivial enough if we wanted to.
So anyone have any thoughts, queries, suggestions or objections?
If we go ahead with this I would reimport the repo to github one last time?
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?
Kake
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.
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.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Bob Walker wrote:
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.
Hi Bob,
I have some test fixes to commit; I assume that svn is still the right place to go for now?
Cheers, Dominic.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Hi Bob,
I have some test fixes to commit; I assume that svn is still the right place to go for now?
yep.
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