Re: New questions on moving to github

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, at 9:31 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 06/04/18 17:22, Wes Hardaker via Net-snmp-coders wrote:
> > So, I assume most people have seen that Microsoft is purchasing github.
> > We were just about to move Net-SNMP to GitHub, and certainly still can.
> > But it's definitely time to check whether we still want to go this
> > direction.  I see the following options:
> > 
> > 1) Continue our path and timeline as is
> > 2) Pause the move while we see what Microsoft has planned for the future
> >     of GitHub; we really have no idea what their intent is at this point
> > 3) Find someplace else
> > 
> > I'd love to hear people's opinions.
> 
> Maybe we should wait a few days to let the dust settle? Although I 
> regret the acquisition of github by Microsoft, I'm not sure we have a 
> good alternative. As far as I know github has a much better 
> infrastructure than any other open source hosting site. If in the future 
> github would become inappropriate then we can move again. It's not that 
> hard to move a git repository. Moving the wiki pages is not that easy 
> unfortunately.

I feel the same was as Bart on this. Regarding the wiki: In github, a project's wiki can be tied to a specifically named branch in the project repo. So, it might be worth looking into doing that with the existing wiki should a need to relocate arise again.

> 
> The optimist view is that Microsoft may well realize that any changes 
> that the open source community will perceive as evil will cause a mass 
> migration away from github and hence that they will refrain from such 
> changes.
> 

IMO, I think MS has finally given up fighting the open source/open standards community (or, at least I don't think they will as long as Nadella is the CEO). I think the amount of projects that Microsoft has since open-source (albeit quietly) on GitHub indicates that they've learned the errors of their ways back in the 90's. Might I also point out that they have announced the disbanding of their Windows dev team, and their latest "product" (Azure Sphere) is running Linux. I'm no Microsoft fanboy; but, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt at this point.

> Bart.
> 
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Keith (pantherse)

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