Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: pear Jenkins

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Daniel Convissor <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Folks:
>
> It seems to me that the PEAR repository should be migrated to
> git.php.net just like the PHP repository was.  And stuff on GitHub
> should be brought back into PHP's server.
>
> I guess each package should be a separate Git repo under a pear/ or
> pear/packages "directory."
>
>
I'm not so sure on that approach. I mean http://git.php.net/ is a bit
spartan - we'd lose pull requests, commit hooks, etc. I'm most worried
about the ease-of-contributing - github works pretty well with pull
requests and the review cycle. IMO We need all of the extra hands we can
get from external contributors.
If those features are there in some fashion, it's not obvious to me from a
~30 look.

The second bit I'm worried about is the karma system (accepting new
contributors into the fold). We've seen that it's a bit hard with the
SVNROOT side of things to grant karma - a select few have access, a
different select few can mint accounts; add a bit of workload and the
system tends to drift apart / lag for weeks.
Github at the moment it's one click to administrate, self register for
accounts. There's still a core group of people with their hands on the
controls, but TBH I think we could incrementally extend that group to be
more of "the regulars" rather than "the elected few".

I'd be open to a mirroring approach (svn.php.net -> git.php.net -> mirror
to github or svn.php.net -> mirror to github); but it seems like a lot of
effort.