All, In an effort to speed up our code development processes, reduce the friction amongst existing contributors and reduce barriers to entry for new contributors familiar with the popular git DVCS, we (the OpenStack@Rackspace team) have been studying a transition of our code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub. We understand others would be proposing the same at the design summit, but we figured it would be good to get the discussion started earlier.
GitHub has a number of major strengths when it comes to managing source code: - Contributors seem to be more familiar with, and comfortable using, git - The code review process on GitHub is easier to use for reviewers who use the website interface and allows for fine-grained comment control per line in diffs As good as the GitHub review system is, there are some deficiencies, such as the lack of ability to mark a request as definitively approved. We hope to work with the GitHub team to investigate how this can be rectified. Of course, there is much more to delivering a professionally released open source software package than just the code hosting platform. This is the primary interface for code contributors who are actively developing, but the project also needs to have processes in place for handling bug reports, managing distribution, packaging, translations, and releasing the code in an efficient manner. There are a number of things that Launchpad provides OpenStack projects that GitHub does not have the ability to do. Examples of these things include translation services, project management abilities, package archives for projects, and release-management functionality. Therefore, at this time, we are only proposing moving the code hosting functionality to GitHub, and not radically changing any other parts of the development and release process. Soren, Monty, and Thierry, who are the developers responsible for keeping our release management and development infrastructure in good shape, have identified the pieces of our existing infrastructure that they will have to modify. Some of these changes are small, some require a bit more work. They are all committed to making these changes and to moving us along in the process of transitioning code hosting over to GitHub. There will be a design summit session about this transition where the process will be discussed in more detail, as well as the possibility to migrate other parts of our infrastructure. Comments and discussion welcome. Cheers, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
