From: Robert M. <rob...@gm...> - 2010-06-30 20:07:30
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM, John Reese <jr...@le...> wrote: > Howdy all, > > With some of the recent feature additions to Github, and their continued support > of open source projects and the free software community, myself and a few other > developers have decided to investigate a move to Github as the official hosting > location for the core MantisBT repositories. A preliminary "organization" for > MantisBT has been created [1], and the full mantisbt.git repository is being > mirrored there for people to experiment with. +1 all the way. I would welcome inline code reviews as well. I assume the organisation is http://github.com/mantisbt , right? Robert > > Some of the obvious advantages of switching away from self-hosted repositories: > > - Less bandwidth and server overhead required, potentially saving server costs > > - Higher availability of code; Github will respond to outages faster than us > > - Self-maintained user accounts mean users could manage their own SSH keys, etc > > - Simple and powerful community forking and contribution; users could fork the > repo, and pull-requests through Github could notify this mailing list > > - Improved source code browser with graphs and coordination between forks > > - First-party support from Github for using both Mercurial and SVN clients > > - Street-cred for being where the cool kids are > > Some of the existing features we already have: > > - Email, CIA/IRC, and source integration service hooks are available, but can > be configured using a simple interface instead of editing hook scripts > > - Github's team permissions mean we could still grant developer access to > individual repositories like we do using Gitosis on our own server, but > without needing to deal with complex configuration files > > I personally cannot find any disadvantages, other than requiring a bit of work > to handle the migration, and needing to redirect any existing inbound gitweb > links to the new pages at Github. But I would love to hear any questions or > concerns to the contrary. > > Cheers > > -- > John Reese > LeetCode.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > mantisbt-dev mailing list > man...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mantisbt-dev > -- Sent from my (old) computer |