You might want to checkout bitbucket.org instead of github. They support mercurial and git and have friendlier free accounts. But I agree the market has spoken and git has won the day. Bitbucket also support issue tracking and a wiki though I have not used the wiki support.
Charlie On May 30, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Yuv <goo...@levy.ch> wrote: > Hi Hugin community, long time no seen. Change is inevitable, some of > it good, some of it bad. Today I report what is in my opinion very > bad change to Hugin's infrastructure brought about by Sourceforge; and > I plead for a simple fix: migrate Hugin's code to a better > alternative, probably Github. > > I have not had much time for Hugin lately, not even to take pictures, > but the commit notifications from the repositories kept me updated on > what was going on in the code. Hugin's code lives in Mercurial, a > wonderful distributed revision control system that by default sends > self-contained, informative emails on every commit. > > Sourceforge has "upgraded" its project hosting and Hugin, Enblend, > Panotools have all been migrated to the new system, which IMHO can be > summarized with a single short word: CRAP. The new commit emails are > spammy. The information is incomplete. To get the full picture, one > must log on to SF's website, where the display is inefficient to say > the least. > > For me, I have unsubscribed from SF. This means that I will be even > more disconnected from Hugin. I do not know what other developers do, > especially those who are no longer active on a day to day basis? > > The solution I suggest is to migrate repositories. I migrated Hugin > from Subversion to Mercurial, both on the old SF infrastructure when > it was still good, and I can pull such a migration again. Actually a > migration now will be even easier. The dVCS have matured and there > are many more tools available. The difficult part of such a migration > project is selecting the target. > > First of all, I believe it should be the same target for all related > tools -- Hugin, Panotools, Enblend -- for the same reason why I > migrated all three of them to the same Mercurial-based repository and > to the same Launchpad-based bug tracker years ago: tools > simplification. Before moving we need consensus amongst the > developers, first and foremost those that are currently most active. > Your opinions? > > Second, the choice of tool. A few years ago the choice was Mercurial > because of better Windows support and because of the ease to add > customized hooks (Python). In the meantime things have changed. At > the moment, it seems that the preferred tool is git, specifically > Github > > http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/164618/why-are-many-programmers-moving-their-code-to-github > > I have been away for too long. Is there any other tool that we should > consider? I heard some good things about code review tools such as > Gerrit, but I know too little about the state of code hosting. > Anybody care to share their insights on this? I remember witnessing > an off-list developers conversation where somebody suggested a tool > that was automatically connected with a buildbot to produce nightly > binaries? > > How do people feel about moving the code away from SourceForge? We've > already moved the bug tracker away. If there is consensus around the > idea, and if nobody does it, I might be able to make some time at the > end of August before school starts again. I will leave the idea and > the thought with you, please discuss here, and will look back in a few > weeks to see if there is real interest or if it is just me who is fed > up with SourceForge. > > Of course, if anybody with more time and skill than me is willing to > pull this, they will have my support, but if nobody takes action, I > hope at least that you will support me in letting me do this. At the > end of the process, Sourceforge will serve solely as host for the > downloads and the web pages. > > Thank you for considering this idea. > Yuv > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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