Hi Dan, Do you want to put this into a nice format on the CC.org blog? I would be good to refresh the interest of CC readers in this repository.
Best, Maarten -- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | @mzeinstra On 28 Oct 2013, at 7:21 , Dan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm sorry for the too brief and somewhat flippant answer the other > day, I didn't mean to say it that way. I am pushing our code to GitHub > because it's pretty much _the_ standard these days for git hosting, > including for open source projects. That means it's generally easier > for developers to find, use, and contribute to the project. It's also > got excellent tools for managing bugs, pull requests, etc., and very > good API access as well. So while it's not perfect by any means, it's > pretty great, and far and away better than what we have now. > > Anyway... I just finished migrating our old subversion repository into > individual git repositories. Conversion notes and logs are here: > > https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-svn-migration > > Project repositories are all up on GitHub now: > > https://github.com/creativecommons > > There are a few things that given infinite time I would've fixed up. > If anyone wants to work on them as a project, let me know and we can > work out how you can get access to the svn repository DB (if needed). > These include: > > * Making sure that authors have correct emails assigned. Subversion > doesn't track this, git does. So everyone has an email like <svn > username>@committer.creativecommons.org assigned. You'd need to track > down people and build a mapping file which the svn2git conversion tool > can use. > * Svn tags are really branches. I added rules to prepend "tag--" to > anything in /tags/ but left them as branches in git. These could be > converted to actual git tags, assuming they have no additional commits > in them (which is possible in svn, since as I said they are really > branches). > * I spent some time trying to capture the right history for each > project as things got reorganized on svn, but if anyone wants to > double-check, see the cc.rules file and talk to me to get the svn > server's db files. > > If anyone spots anything _wrong_ let me know so I can fix it ASAP. > > Dan > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Dan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, I considered it. GitHub is just better. >> >> Dan >> >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Did we consider Gitorious given that its source code is available and, as >>> such, it is at least philosophically more aligned with CC's normative goals >>> than Github may be? I do want to underscore that I have no reason to doubt >>> Github's creds for citizenship in the open community other than the fact >>> that Github's source code itself is not open source. >>> >>>> On Oct 24, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Dan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Just wanted to give you all a heads up that I'm moving all of our >>>> sources to GitHub: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/creativecommons/ >>>> >>>> So far I've migrated all of the git repositories, svn ones are quite a >>>> bit harder to migrate (and preserve history), but hopefully those will >>>> be up there within the week as well. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> cc-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
