Paul Spencer wrote: > Tim, > > I don't have a strong opinion on this, it seems like it may be > somewhat disruptive to move to a new system and it is not clear to me > that there is a huge gain from this. What is your motivation for > proposing this? Is it because DCVS is technically superior or will > eliminate some bottleneck in our current system? In all the replies > so far, I haven't seen you respond with your motivation. >
My motivation for taking a poll was to get a sense from the developer community (those active and interested in becoming more active) on opinions about using git - and in particular GitHub. I didn't start with my opinions because it was intended to be a poll and not a pitch. There are still a number of people who I think it would be good to hear from - but I also know that long threads wander and get boring. Since you (and Schuyler) asked a direct question, here's a partial response: I think GitHub does a great job of lowering the bar to "participation" in a project. For example, you can submit a patch (essentially) on GitHub without leaving your browser [1]. I imagine that could be particularly handy for documentation & example patches. Regarding Schuyler's boat rocking, I doubt anyone would argue that given a long enough history, OpenLayers will move from subversion. There is obviously a lot of room between boat rocking and clinging to helplessly deprecated software - and I grant that the poll implies an interest in a bit of boat rocking. But as I mentioned, it was just a poll, and I wouldn't push for anything that there is real opposition to. Tim [1] Example directions from jQuery UI about submitting a patch: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/howto-submit-a-patch-to-jquery-ui-using-the-github-web-interface Compare to http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute Note that I don't really think this alone would do great things for the project - we're not suffering from a lack of trivial patches. I just think it is a cool feature. > Cheers > > Paul > > > On 2010-04-16, at 7:22 PM, Tim Schaub wrote: > >> Hey- >> >> In advance of our infrastructure meeting (time TBD), I thought I'd >> take a poll for the heck of it. >> >> Would people be in favor of or opposed to moving the OpenLayers >> repository to GitHub? >> >> If the developers are interested in a change like this (even if it >> is not until 3.0) we could create a PSC managed account called >> openlayers and put whatever projects (e.g. website, openlayers) >> under that. Anybody could fork. "Core" committers would become >> collaborators on the openlayers account. >> >> If we go with GitHub, we may or may not want to use their issue >> tracker. This is a separate topic for discussion (the github-trac >> plugin can allow some integration of Trac and GitHub). >> >> If we go with GitHub, we could also discuss using their wiki and >> GitHub pages for a static website (still hosted from >> http://openlayers.org). These are also separate topics for >> discussion. >> >> I'm interested mainly to hear if people are generally in favor or >> opposed to the idea of a repository move - and a move specifically >> to GitHub for hosting. >> >> Tim >> >> >> -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight >> from the developers. >> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list >> Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > __________________________________________ > > Paul Spencer Chief Technology Officer DM Solutions Group Inc > http://research.dmsolutions.ca/ > -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
