Hi Ed,
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Ed W <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, There was a previous (several?) discussion about moving the
> source to git? I kind of thought that the conclusion was "yes"? What
> happened?
>
No idea. Nothing? :-)
Actually, I like that it didn't for several reasons:
* I do most of my development on Windows or from Windows. Git integrates a
lot less well with it than TortoiseSVN does for Subversion
* While I'm very much at ease with the svn command line client, I'd have
to learn a new tool to do my development with Git
I would be very keen to see the code move to some kind of dvcs - I have
> a desire to develop some enhancements to our local installation and I
> confess that I find it *massively* easier to maintain a fork using some
> kind of dvcs than SVN... I concede that it should be possible for me to
> use git locally and pull from svn upstream, but I have had various
> failures making that work in practice, seems somewhat fragile..?
>
Actually, I'm running a customization off the 1.3 branch as well. I'm using
Subversion to do it and it hasn't posed any problems so far! The customized
version is publicly available at
http://www.hix.nu/svn-public/lsmb-customizations/trunk, if you're
interested.
> What is the current status? Any chance I might raise the idea as a
> serious prospect again? Note I do think running some kind of modern
> dvcs is a significant boost to attracting external developers...
>
While I think attracting more developers is an admirable goal well worth
striving for, I'd sure hope they're not "external"! I'm really wondering if
the availability of a git repository is the way to go though. As you said,
you have the svn-git bridges to work with git off a subversion repository
and there's the option to work even with subversion off the subversion
repository, as I demonstrated above.
One thing I'm weary about is that such a move costs time. That's something
the current core team members have little available of and we care to spend
coding or developing the community - helping people understand how to use
LSMB. Is spending our scarce resources on such a move really effort well
spent?
Additionally I would lightly suggest that github can be a great place to
> host and can be a slightly positive marketing tool (I will accept
> opinions vary a lot on that...)
>
There are currently two LSMB cloned repositories on GitHub - if they're all
registered on Ohloh.net.
My 0.02$. Thanks for bringing it up though. Don't feel discouraged to
discuss and debate my opinion.
Bye,
Erik.
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