Very big +1 :) Denis
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 15:24, Alex Busenius <[email protected]>wrote: > Big +1 as well > > Alex > > On 03/18/2011 10:40 AM, Vincent Massol 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
