[ckan-dev] Move to Github?

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Thu Jul 7 12:20:39 UTC 2011


I hear you. When this came up this wasn't suggested as something
immediate so let's defer this for the present.

Rufus

On 7 July 2011 13:14, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Sorry to say but I'm -1 on this. I'm not contesting github is way
> better (I love it a lot) but what we will end up doing is moving
> 60%-70% of all modules and references across, adding further confusion
> to things (we've only just gotten rid of the KForge ambiguity and we
> still often get people who follow the outdated docs releases on kforge
> and then fail)
>
> If we want to do it, lets stop development for 1 week and do it
> properly, but not "on the side" ;-)
>
> - Friedrich
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 2011/7/7 Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com>:
>>> Does this mean moving also from Mercurial to Git as DVCS, or only
>>> using hg-git plugin to host our repos on GitHub?
>>
>> I think this would be a full move to git/github as our primary repo
>> (as opposed to just a copy) - we need to have one and probably one
>> authoratative place.
>>
>> This isn't yet agreed so if people have +/- views please say.
>>
>> Regarding hg-git plugin I've used it extensively and it works pretty
>> well -- up to a point. For example I was pushing the ckan hg repo
>> regularly to github but it stopped working with an error a month or so
>> ago and has never worked since. Also named branches (that we have used
>> heavily) don't transfer to git (but bookmarks do) so we'd need to
>> switch to bookmarks from named branches going forward.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>> 2011/7/7 David Read <david.read at okfn.org>:
>>>> James mentioned we're looking at moving from Bitbucket to Github.
>>>> Perhaps Nils or someone might look at doing the migration?
>>>>
>>>> @Rufus can you add my user (davidread) to the okfn 'team' on Github in
>>>> the meantime? I'm keen to put on there our ApacheMiddleware which is
>>>> living on James' server, which has an expired ssl certificate and so
>>>> fails for newer versions of Mercurial.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
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