Re: Zope 4 release management

Alex Clark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/1/12 8:21 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 13:03, Alex Clark<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> - what RCS software to use
>>> - where to host it
>>>
>>> It may be easier if we disentangled them.
>>
>> Traditionally it was easier, but now-a-days with github and bitbucket they
>> are harder to disentangle.
>
> It is entangled, but it is important to notice that they are separate concerns.
>
> I do think the big issue is where to host it. Yes, fine, people have
> opinions on git vs svn vs hg, etc. But that boils down to 25%
> technical arguments, 25% what you are used to 25% what everyone else
> uses and then 30% religion to make sure the bucket overflows.
>
> But where to host it is a tricky issue. Ownership and control is one
> big argument for having our own servers. Githubs forking/merging
> process a big argument for going to github. Should you then decide
> that github is the place  to host it, well, then git is the software
> to use.

Actually, they introduced improved Subversion client support late last year:

- https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-support


(they've supported import-from-svn and limited svn client support for 
longer)


>
> To be honest I see little point in just setting up our own git
> repository. Yeah, maybe git is better from some technical standpoints,
> but it's also harder to use, and the question then becomes just
> religion.
>
> What we would like to do, of course, is to have a self-hosted github.
> :-)  (And that exists. Buuuuuuut... it costs $250 per commiter and
> year, so that's not an option, obviously.)
>
> //Lennart
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