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