On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 17/05/11 10:31, Gabriel Roldán wrote:
> >> Well, I think it could result in an explosion of publicly available
> >> prototypes, since anyone would be able to work on his own public repo
> >> without having to request commit access to svn, and able to say hey, if
> >> you wanna try my module, just pull from this url. And you can as easily
> >> branch out your repo, pull from it, try it out, and propose it to become
> >> part of the mainstream if it's good.
> >
> > Modules outside the central repo are already welcome. There is nothing
> > stopping anyone from putting modules elsewhere. For example, Justin has
> > a github external in community/python.
>
> Gabriel, I guess what we're missing today is those people that would
> contribute only if they could use git to do so. I guess there might be some
> around that ended up despising svn so much that they are not even
> interested
> in giving git-svn a go.
>
> I'm wondering, if there was some "official" clone of GeoServer on GitHub,
> would that help those people? Could we have some way of treating their
> push requests so that we can grab diffs, apply in svn and move on?
>
>
+1 on an official clone - I was actually _just_ thinking of that before I
read this message. To me it's less that there's people who will refuse to
contribute to svn, but more that we'll get a bit more natural 'serendipity'
of contributions. So if there's an official clone we can see who forks it,
and easily know what people are up to, and potentially reach out to them.
They can then just issue a pull request instead of figuring out a number of
new systems.
See for example https://github.com/geonode/GeoNode/network There are a
number of people who we first saw on github before on the mailing list. You
can see who's been doing improvements, what changes they're actually making,
how often they're updating, etc. If we had this then cases like the
Spatialite outputformat guy who just spoke up might have done his work there
instead of on a new google code thing that none of us knew about.
I think it can also help developers be more aware of what others are doing.
I'm not super clear on the practicalities of setting it up, but if we had
an official one then I'd hope that all devs using github now could clone
that same one, so all that activity would be shown.
C
> Cheers
> Andrea
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