+1 On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like test the waters and see what you'd feel about moving XWiki's source > to GitHub. > > Pros: > * Use Git instead of Subversion. Which means a better SCM especially wrt > branching / diagnosins bugs (bissect) just to name 2 > * More contributors since it's easy to fork/branch and we can see > contributor's patches (pull requests) and apply them way more easily than > with subversion > * More collaboration in general between committers and contributors > * A better SCM web site (check github.com - offers graphs/stats, views of > forked/branched repos, etc) > * Good buzz for us (tech marketing) > * GitHub provides SVN integration (see > https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support) which means we can > continue using SVN tools such as svnsearch, ohloh, our IDE integrations, etc > * Less admin work and less maintenance since this is handled by GitHub itself > * Good uptime on GitHub (probably at least as good as ours if not better) > * Improved developer spirit since most devs wants to start using Git > > Cons: > * Have to learn a new SCM/new tools > * No integration of users with xwiki.org > * Import/reorg work to be done obviously > * Reliance on an external provider (but seen the other OSS projects there I'm > not worried and there's no lock in since your have the repos spread on all > users' machines) > > IMO the pros heavily outweight the cons. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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