[OH-Dev] Moving our git repository to Github

[Jule Slootbeek]

I am also a fan of moving to github just for the speed increase.

However, do we know why gitorious is having performance problems, are they
just low on bandwidth? Are they running on old servers? Is there something
we can do as an Open Source project/community to help a fellow Open Source
project out?

Knowing what their problems are could help us see if there's something we
can do.

/ jss

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:40, Seth Woodworth <seth at sethish.com> wrote:

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 I don't want it to get out-of-date.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