Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Github status

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Ok, I don't think we have more replies coming now.
>
> I counted 10 yays, 3 ambivalents and 3 nays.  One of the ambivalents
> (Wez) would prefer SVN, so that is probably closer to a nay.  4 Nays,
> from Andi, Derick, Brian Shire and Wez is pretty significant, despite
> the enthusiasm of the yays.
>
> The wrinkle at this point is that Gwynne has run out of steam on the
> Subversion migration.  She has done a ton of work on it so far, but
> unless we find a new volunteer for the final push, it won't happen.  We
> have enthusiastic volunteers for the Github effort.  So, on that point
> alone Github is ahead right now.
>

I didn't realize Gwynne had run out of steam, and I probably hadn't expressed this clearly before but I'm happy to help out with this conversion (I was under the impression that there isn't much left).  Having a SVN repository I think makes a lot of the branch work and git usage much much simpler so I feel it's a big win.   I just need some direction on what I can do to help.


> I think most people would be fine, not completely happy, but fine with a
> nicely working Subversion setup.  We could perhaps maintain a git tree
> next to it.  If it is on the same host, perhaps we could synch it via a
> post-commit or something so it would never fall behind.
>
> Or, if we don't have the volunteers for that sort of setup, we outsource
> to Github pending them solving our acl issues.
>

Likewise I'm happy to help out with getting something git/git-hub setup.  I would be more enthusiastic about github if I saw some features like the ACL, search capability, more compact display of history, and probably just a lot of power features I don't currently see on the interface now.  (I have reservations about being so tied to a closed-source shop though).

Despite it seeming like extra work, my interest would be in going forward with the SVN conversion, it'll be easier for us to sync to a git-hub/git repo at that point and if we find it compelling enough then a full conversion to git-hub should be pretty straight forward once we're satisfied with the features.

-shire