18 Mar
2011
18 Mar
'11
5:12 p.m.
Very big +1 :)
Denis
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 15:24, Alex Busenius
<alex.busenius(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Big +1 as well
Alex
On 03/18/2011 10:40 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
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Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
eGuilde sarl - CTO
Hi everyone,
I'd like test the waters and see what you'd feel about moving XWiki's
source to GitHub.
Pros:
* Use Git instead of Subversion. Which means a better SCM especially wrt
branching
/ diagnosins bugs (bissect) just to name 2
* More contributors since it's easy to
fork/branch and we can see
contributor's patches (pull requests) and apply them
way more easily than
with subversion
* More collaboration in general between
committers and contributors
* A better SCM web site (check github.com - offers graphs/stats, views
of
forked/branched repos, etc)
* Good buzz for us (tech marketing)
* GitHub provides SVN integration (see
https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support) which means we can
continue using SVN tools such as svnsearch, ohloh, our IDE integrations, etc
* Less admin work and less maintenance since this
is handled by GitHub
itself
* Good uptime on GitHub (probably at least as
good as ours if not better)
* Improved developer spirit since most devs wants to start using Git
Cons:
* Have to learn a new SCM/new tools
* No integration of users with xwiki.org
* Import/reorg work to be done obviously
* Reliance on an external provider (but seen the other OSS projects there
I'm
not worried and there's no lock in since your have the repos spread on
all users' machines)
IMO the pros heavily outweight the cons.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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