Around a year ago we drafted and implemented an open source policy (http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/ets/guidelines) that says our default stance is public repositories, both for projects in active development and those we consider stable or orphaned. We¹re still at the beginning of the process, so we still occasionally have some private repositories for those projects with seriously specific scope or projects which we haven¹t invested the time into to make public (via using environment variables for passwords and such.) However, if you¹d like to see some of what we¹ve published feel free to check us out - http://github.com/osulp .
Trey Terrell Programmer Analyst [email protected] Oregon State University Libraries Corvallis, OR 97331 On 7/11/14, 11:59 AM, "Michael Schofield" <[email protected]> wrote: >Maybe we could share our decisions behind whether we keep our >github/bitbucket repositories public or private. For the most part, I >keep web and other non-sensitive code completely public. While there's a >little red tape around releasing themes we've built as, ah, "packages," >intrepid diggers would find most of it on Github. > >Obviously all of our database connections / patron apis aren't a part of >that, but I think largely the health [and independence] of #libweb stuff >relies on sharing and good-natured ripping off. Even if the code is >awful, I'm not too concerned with private repos. > >Michael >// www.ns4lib.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Geoffrey Spear >Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 2:23 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Software to track website changes? > >On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Francis Kayiwa <[email protected]> >wrote: >>> Another +1 for Github Issues. If you¹re uncomfortable putting the >>> website in a public repo they¹ve given us 50 private repositories for >>> free and have asked us to spread the word. You can just head over to >>> https://education.github.com/ and request a discount for your >>> organization - they¹ve been amazing to work with. =) >>> >> >> I had (sample of one) to jump through so many hoops and still couldn't >> convince them to give me what you got. >> >> FWIW All bitbucket needs is a .edu account and they will give you >> unlimited repos. Sure not as *cool* as github but also has had less >> bad press than github. ;-) > >We use bitbucket for both the free private repos and issue tracking here. > >In my experience, their issue tracker is not nearly as good at Github's >(which isn't particularly surprising since they'd like you to pay for >Jira.) > >Github's education discounts looked to me like they were aimed >specifically at teaching rather than being free for any use by an >educational institution when I looked at them, but I don't remember if >there was specific language that gave me that impression or just vague >"use github in the classroom!" marketing. I know Jira does actually >distinguish between "use at an educational institution" and "classroom >use" in their discounted vs. free policy. > >If I could get free Travis for Private Repos along with free Github I'd >switch in a second; I don't know that the improved issue tracker alone >would be worth the effort for me. >-- >Geoffrey Spear >Metadata Manager >Health Sciences Library System >University of Pittsburgh
