Re: [Docutils-develop] 2014: Docutils, sourceforge and migrating to github.

[Leandro L. <lu...@ll...>]

David Goodger, el 23 de January a las 09:24 me escribiste:
> There is definitely an advantage to a distributed VCS. Being able to
> commit, branch, roll back — experiment incrementally — on your local
> system, and only produce a patch or "pull request" once your changes
> are fully realized and polished, is a great tool. A distributed VCS
> allows developers to commit as often as they like without affecting
> other developers — it's "commit often" on steroids. I haven't used Git
> much in earnest, but I've had good results from Mercurial and Bazaar.
> I'm open to such a change, but I have no desire (let alone time) to
> implement the change myself. So my vote is +0.
> 
> Maybe it's short-sighted but for me, the pain of making the switch to
> another VCS outweighs the benefit we'd see, at least in the short
> term. But I'm used to SVN and not doing much active development on
> Docutils these days. I don't see SVN as much of a pain point.
> 
> The group of active developers and project "admins" has to make any
> such decision, but it requires a champion (or a group) who care enough
> to push through the group's inertia, convince the others, and
> implement the change. An absolute requirement, for me, is that such a
> change be complete. We can't lose any data or have to refer to the old
> system as an "archive". So all the SVN history, all branches, and the
> full sandbox need to be converted at the same time.

There is a social aspect of it, it might sound stupid, but I've seen
project multiply the number of contributions just by moving the project
to GitHub (git is great for the SCM part, but GitHub makes a huge
difference in terms of the social part).

I agree for a project like docutils it might not sound very tempting,
but I think you might be surprised by the outcome of such a move.

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