Re: G3 on Windows sub-forum

I created a generic category, "Gallery on Unsupported Servers" with a description mentioning Windows, Postgres, and Nginx, etc. Does that sound reasonable?

James, can you take a stab at the sticky post, taking into consideration Bharat's comments and including the Git Advanced Topics link?

- Chad

On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Tim Almdal wrote:

> Have you tried here: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Git
> or here http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Git:Advanced_Topics

On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Bharat Mediratta wrote:

> 
> I'm fine with a forum where users who want to use Windows support each other.  But I am not going to accept any code into the main line that makes sacrifices for Windows.  It's hard enough to keep up with stability, performance and security on one platform - having to think about a second platform will add too much drag on the process.
> 
> Even if a developer steps up to own the Windows code, they can own it in their own fork - the repo I own won't make any concessions to unsupported platforms.  If you recall, we went through this with Postgres and it was the same issue and one of our users stepped up and maintained his own fork - that's totally fine with me.
> 
> -Bharat
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Chad Kieffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> How many G3 on Windows posts are you seeing in the forums?
> 
> I believe Git Codex pages exist. I haven't looked at them in awhile, they may require updates to include forking and push/pull. I believe Github has soca that we'd want to direct folks to for reference.
> 
> - Chad
> 
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:48 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > We could start the forum off with a sticky, explaining the security
> > issues, the time constraints, and a warning/clause that 'running it on
> > Windows poses a security problem' and you do so at your own risk.
> >
> >
> > As a side note:  A document that explains the GIT forking/push/pull
> > process might be beneficial as well to help establish a method for these
> > contributions that may be pulled in to the main source.
> >
> > Again, just a thought.
> >
> > James
> >
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