My opinion is that this has only benefits in terms of gaining more contributions from the larger community. People are more familiar with GitHub's tools than they are Apache's.
I don't think there's any danger in losing the crucial connection to ASF. The word "Apache" is embedded everywhere that's important. Also, I imagine that this switch is reversible. The project can be hosted anywhere that can host git. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau <tnadeaua...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just wanted to raise awareness that a discussion of moving our > repo from one that is hosted at Apache’s git and mirrored on Github, to one > that is solely hosted on GitHub. Suneel raised this on the list the other > day, and we’ve had a little discussion about it with John A just now. The > day to day operation of the project will not be affected as far as I can > tell. Basically what needs to happen is for me to send in a ticket request > to the Apache Infra/Tools folks to activate this. > > If anyone has any opinions either way, please speak up ASAP. I’ll > plan to send the note out at COB Thursday if I don’t hear anything negative. > > Cheers, > > —Tom > >
