[ckan-dev] Move to Github?

Thu Jul 7 17:53:45 UTC 2011

Will,

I wholeheartedly agree that too often technical choices are biassed by
what is familiar or exciting.

And in this case I believe the driver is something else - we want to
encourage more people to get & contribute code and because of its
popularity, Git/GitHub is a lower barrier to entry than
Mercurial/Bitbucket. (Although I agree with Friedrich we should hold
off for now.)

Jonathan also makes a good point that if we replace Skype for meetings
and community chats, then we need something just as easy and
convenient, as well as considering the technical (and political!)
issues.

David

On 7 July 2011 18:32, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> I agree with Friedrich. Not sure why github is "way better", slightly
> nicer I'd say but not enough to be a good reason to change. What is
> the reason for this suggestion? What is the problem with
> bitbucket/mercurial?
>
> May as well wait until the next VCS fasion happens to change...
>
> (n.b. using pypi or other packages instead of nailing to revisions in
> repositories is probably a way better deployment strategy for
> things...)
>
> -w
>
> * [2011-07-07 14:14:12 +0200] Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] 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 ] still often get people who follow the outdated docs releases on kforge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.
> ] >>>
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