Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] GitHub and ACLs

Travis Swicegood wrote:

As I understood Rasmus, GitHub was mentioned specifically because it would allow PHP'ers to not *have* to worry about maintaining the repository infrastructure. Git makes offloading the repo hosting an easy choice as we're not tied to them since everyone as there are dozens (if not hundreds) of mirrors since each developer has a clone of the entire repo history. GitHub also provides some nice UI tools for submitting simple patches (I believe spelling corrections in docs was used as an example).

The only concern that comes to mind with offloading repo hosting is security. With a centralized server like CVS we have successfully avoided any malicious code injection over the years. I'm not saying that this will happen with Git, but that we will have to be more diligent in watching out for it.

Referring back to Rasmus' "Github status" email on April 8th, it looks like there's 10 yays, and 3-4 nays. (with you, Brian, as the maybe nay). The nays include some of the (maybe all of the?) largest contributors to php-src, so that does seem like a big reason not to move.

So what was the point of voting then, if we're looking at the weight of the votes? -Andrei