[OH-Dev] Moving our git repository to Github

[Seth Woodworth]

I also think that a move to Github is a positive increase in visibility and
ease for new contributors that outweighs the proprietary downside.

Githubs hooks should allow for automatic syncing to other services, and I
am willing to look into scripting the process.

--Seth (Hi, I'm new here!)

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Karen Rustad <karen.rustad at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 I don't want it to get out-of-date.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
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