[Notion-devel] Reconsidering sf.net and git submodules

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

Hello,

While I'd much rather work on code (bugs and features) than infrastructure,
I'm hearing an increasing frustration with sourceforge.net .

I'd like to hear what you all would think about moving notion to, for
example, github.

On a slightly related note, I've been less than happy with our experiment
using git submodules. Right now we're using relative paths, which means
when you want to fork notion (for example to your own github account) you
need to fork all submodules, too.

We could switch to using absolute URL's, but that has even more
disadvantages: since the notion repo's are available both through
authenticated and anonymous(readonly) URL's, the submodules would have to
point to the anonymous(readonly) URL's. Having to update the parent project
when you're updating a submodule is already a pain, this would make it even
worse. Also, if you'd like to make changes to both the parent and a
submodule in a fork (for example on your own github), you'd need to update
the submodule URL, which counts as a commit and makes merging that parent
branch into mainline notion an absolute pain.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on:
* moving from sf.net to github
* putting everything (including libtu/libextl) in one git repo instead of
using submodules


Kind regards,

Arnout