On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:05:41AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Everybody is in favour of doing this. > > We had some additional off-list emails. Salient points: > > -- let's do this
:-) > -- I strongly success GitHub because it already has a complete CRAN mirror > thanks to the work of Gabor Csardi (which whom I am very friendly and > working already on other things) (and this is no rub to alioth; they are > already Debian projects in https://github.com/Debian and eg Charles and I > have access there) I'd like to add some cons to the Github suggestion: - Would force people creating a Github account who does not have one (but on Alioth) - Makes us depend from a proprietary service - Disables tools we use to parse metadata on alioth (Umegaya, prospective_packages parser) - Other teams (like Debian Perl which was used by Don as an example) have good experiences with Alioth Cloning an existing project from Github is cheap enough anyway. > -- I suggest to create a new "org", maybe debian-r and seed it with a few of > us (Don, Charles, Steffen, ...) > > -- Someone needs to show up "advanced git for packaging"; my skills are > mostly git and packaging fully separated and though I read the howtos a > few times my packaging process still fights with git even for (upstream) > repos like ess where they let me write debian/ straight in) May be we could cut-n-paste some advise from Debian Med policy[1]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#git-repository-structures -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
