Re: [PEAR-DEV] Hosting PEAR's git repositories on git.php.net

Hi Till,


> > - Github is an entity we do not have any control over.
> > Their Terms of Services[1] state that they can delete and repository
> > and user/organization at their will, without any notice or a way to
> > get the code back.
> I don't believe this is going to happen.
While it is unlikely, it is possible.

> Besides, what keeps us from mirroring our Github organizations
> somewhere else?
I have the deep that simply mirroring repositories can be dangerous if
someone force-pushes an empty repository on the original repository,
and this one gets mirrored then.

> > - We would get back proper commit mails with diffs
> I am not sure if I see more email I don't have time to read as an
> advantage. I prefer the interface a lot.  
You don't read them, but other people do. We had numerous occasions
where bugs we spotted by people reading the commit diff mails.


> > The only downside I see is that merging pull requests isn't a one
> > click action anymore, since the github repository is only a mirror,
> > and no commits may be made to it directly.
> 
> This feature has lots of implications. It's not just the maintainers
> who have to figure out four git commands to merge a PR vs one click,
> for me it's also the code review which comes with the PR on github,
> fast servers etc..
Code review is still possible on github. Just the merge action takes
place on your CLI compared to the github button.

> Also, for a PR to "happen", the contributors will have to know how to
> send one as well.
Still possible via github.

> Or well, I don't see a reason to make contributing and maintaining
> more painful than it really has to be.
The "only" maintainer burden would be more effort to merge pull
requests. We could provide a git command that makes this easy, e.g.

$ git merge-pull http://github.com/pear/Net_Foo/pull/1


> Otherwise, I am against moving it all to php.net at this point. I
> more prefer things where they are.
Administration of the github organizations and repositories is a PITA,
that's one of the things I absolutely don't like "as they are".


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