Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags

[Dmitri T. <dti...@ya...>]

Sourceforge can provide the support, but Github is the new hot thing.  Consider Exuberant Ctags itself.  There are over *fifty* forks of Exuberant Ctags on Github:

  https://github.com/search?q=exuberant+ctags&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults

and only one on Sourceforge:

  http://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=exuberant%20ctags

Most of those forks on Github have modifications to one parser or another and most could probably be easily merged into the official tree if it were hosted on Github.

Then there is also Travis-CI, which is a testing service that can be integrated with GIthub.  I am not sure whether something like this exists on Sourceforge.

But most importantly, I feel that there is just more awareness about Github and most programmers now choose to host their projects there.  (I say "feel" because I don't have number to back it up.  My own anecdotal evidence: I am much more likely to come across Github links in my daily web browsing than Sourceforge links.)

Those are my arguments in favor of Github.

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On Fri, 12/19/14, Darren Hiebert <dhi...@us...> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags
 To: "Frank Fesevur" <ff...@us...>
 Cc: "ctags-devel Development" <cta...@li...>
 Date: Friday, December 19, 2014, 12:55 AM
 
 Frank,
 
 If I understand you correctly,
 you are proposing that the source code no longer be hosted
 at SourceForge, which is what I would prefer. What are the
 reasons that you believe that SourceForge cannot provide the
 support necessary?
 
 Darren
 
 > On
 Dec 12, 2014, at 2:41 AM, Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...>
 wrote:
 > 
 > Hi
 Darren,
 > 
 > How are
 things going? Are you running into problems? If so, is
 there
 > anything I can do to help you?
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Frank
 > 
 > 
 > 2014-11-19 17:24
 GMT+01:00 Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...>:
 >> 2014-11-19 7:15 GMT+01:00 Darren
 Hiebert <dhi...@us...>:
 >>> Hello Frank,
 >>> 
 >>> I am
 here and ready to talk about making this happen. I need a
 few days to come up to date on the links you posted, and get
 myself back in shape for building a release. How do you
 propose merging? Merging the changes in the github back into
 the Subversion repository on SourceForge?
 >>> 
 >>>
 Darren
 >> 
 >>
 Great to hear from you!
 >> 
 >> The easiest way is to build it is to
 clone the github repo (git clone
 >> https://github.com/fishman/ctags.git)
 and do the normal building
 >>
 steps.
 >> 
 >>
 All the code in the SVN is already in the github repo. We
 think the
 >> best way is to
 start/continue using git and store the repository at
 >> github.
 >> 
 >> At the moment the repo is a personal
 repository of Reza Jelveh aka
 >>
 "fishman". We want to convert that repository into
 an organization.
 >> One of the
 advantages of organizations on github is that is gives
 you
 >> more control over permissions
 and it is not tied to one person
 >>
 anymore. And by converting the repo all the history already
 build is
 >> preserved. Once it is
 converted, we use that git repository as the new
 >> upstream repository.
 >> 
 >> I already
 created an organization named "exuberant-ctags"
 >> https://github.com/exuberant-ctags
 >> 
 >> At this
 moment it is still empty, but I will set it up any time
 soon.
 >> That means adding the
 collaborators of the current repo as owner or
 >> developer and then move the
 repository. I want to add you as an owner
 >> as well, but I need to know your
 github account name for that. Of
 >>
 course, the original members of the sf-team can be added as
 well if
 >> they are still interested
 in ctags.
 >> 
 >>
 After that I think we can prepare a release. Some cleanup
 (both code
 >> and docs) has to done,
 but it is pretty stable code.
 >> 
 >> Regards,
 >>
 Frank
 > 
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