[OH-Dev] Moving our git repository to Github

[Karen Rustad]

Some additional thoughts:

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> * We make a list of which features we're willing to use (examples: we sure
> do want to use the git repo hosting. We don't want to use the issue tracker
> because it sucks. We don't want to use the wiki because we want to limit our
> use of Github-only features.)

Indeed. I think we should be very hesitant about using anything on
github that's not actually git-based (and thus easily moved) since
it's not so much the closed-sourceness of the service that bugs me,
but the prospect of lock-in. We shouldn't use their issue tracker not
(just) because it sucks, but because we have our own dang tracker.
Gist use isn't the end of the world, but I'd prefer that we continue
pointing newcomers to other tools like pastebin for that sort of
thing. Using github's favored fork + pull request workflow is okay
with me, but not something I think we should *encourage* people to use
exclusively... I like having patches, and patch review, occur on our
Roundup install.

> * I, for one, am not personally interested in maintaining a mirror on
> Gitorious. I don't want it to get out-of-date.
>

Let's rephrase that as an invitation: If someone wants to volunteer to
maintain an up-to-date mirror of the OH repo on Gitorious or some
other free server, please let us know, and we'll acknowledge that in
the docs somewhere! It would be a great thing to have, for Freedom and
other reasons. But it's not going to be Asheesh or me who does that.
:)

This move is somewhat bittersweet, but I think it's the right one.

-- Karen