On 12/5/20 1:48 PM, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > Dear list, > > I often find myself wandering through the source code of LyX. I can do > that with my IDE, but it often breaks my flow of thoughts (e.g., I'm > just checking how one specific component works, while I'm already > working on a few files that use that module). That's why I usually try > to use either LyX's Trac (which is very slow) or an unofficial GitHub > repo (like https://github.com/cburschka/lyx > <https://github.com/cburschka/lyx>). > > Would it be possible to have an official GitHub /mirror/ for LyX? I'm > not proposing at all to switch all development to GitHub (you could > not forbid force-push on the repo anymore, for instance), only to have > a read-only copy of the Git repo. > > Read-only would mean that issues and pull requests would be completely > disabled and/or ignored (you can add a message when someone starts to > write an issue or a pull request to warn that this is not a way of > collaborating to the project, suggesting other ways of reaching the > developers). This is how Qt works: https://github.com/qt > <https://github.com/qt> > > There is already https://github.com/cburschka/lyx > <https://github.com/cburschka/lyx>, but the problem is that it is not > official, and you don't really know how often it is updated. For an > official mirror, I suppose it would be easy to have an update of the > mirror after every push (although I'm not really knowledgeable about > this kind of use of Git). > > (On a more practical side, the "lyx" username is already taken, but > not yet "lyx-project": https://github.com/lyx-project > <https://github.com/lyx-project>.) > > The benefits of such a mirror would be two-fold: > - help people wander through the source code (mostly developers) > - make the project easier to find, as GitHub is the /de facto/ > software hub right now (mostly users) > > What do you think of it? I already made a quick search in the mailing > list, but I did not the topic being discussed.
I think this would be fine. It is indeed painful to search the source on trac. Riki
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