Re: [matplotlib-devel] git-svn matplotlib mirror

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Friedrich Romstedt
>> <fri...@gm...> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I want to set up a git mirror for matplotlib, but I 1) have some minor
>> > problems and 2) want to know what others think about this.
>>
>> Late last year, I did some work to convert the svn repository to git.
>> The code to d the conversion is available at
>> https://github.com/darrendale/mpl2git . The resulting git repo is
>> available at https://github.com/darrendale/matplotlib . I have not
>> pursued the project further because there did not seem to be enough
>> interest in migrating from svn/sourceforge to git/github to justify
>> investing more of my time in the project.
>>
>> > I'm a native git user and I don't know how to use svn properly.
>>
>> I read that as "uninterested in learning how to use svn", and such
>> sentiment is probably a fact of life as many (most?) open source
>> projects move to DVC. In my opinion, matplotlib is likely to draw more
>> contributors if it lowers barriers to entry and uses a DVCS that is
>> growing in popularity, like git/github.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>
> In discussions with Ryan May on the prospect of switching over to git, it
> sounds like we have a "Bike Shed" problem where we (the main developers)
> agree that we agree that a bike shed should be  built, but we can't agree on
> the color to paint it...

In my view, the issue has nothing to do with bikeshedding.

> I think the main source of the huge download size is the data that is coming
> from the basemap toolkit.  I do not think that it would be a good thing to
> have everyone and their mother needing to do a 'git clone' on their computer
> and find they have to pull down 500+ MB of stuff to get matplotlib.  It is
> because of this that a straight-forward migration from svn to matplotlib
> won't be possible.

The git repo at https://github.com/darrendale/matplotlib does not
include anything from basemap.

> What have been the proposed solutions to dealing with basemap's data?

Separate repo?