Re: Re: Keeping CVS? was - Re: [PEAR-DEV] CVS 2 SVN

On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Craig Constantine wrote:

Once we're using GitHub, what are the benefits?

For me, they are as follows: 1. Built in bug tracking and wiki. 2. Fork Queue. I can't even begin to express the awesomesauce that is the Fork Queue. Ever get a patch to your project as an attachment in a bug and be too lazy to download, apply and commit? No worries, Fork Queue lists the patches from forks of your project and allows you to apply them quickly from a web interface. 3. A byproduct of GitHub is Git. Git was built by the leader of the largest FOSS project on the planet to meet his specific needs for managing a large, distributed, FOSS coding effort. I feel Git fits in SUPER well with PEAR2's notion of having mini-groups managing each category of packages as members can push code upstream to group leaders, etc. 4. Tons and tons of community features, wizbang features, etc. that, quite frankly, we're too busy or lazy to implement ourselves. Signing up is free so I'd sign up and play around with it if I were you. I was skeptical at first as well, but am happily chugging the kool-aid now. :) --Joe