Hello everybody, OXID projects was set up nearly three years before under this location: http://projects.oxidforge.org/
Originally, we wanted to use Canonical's Launchpad which was open sourced around this time but we had to recognize that we couldn't even get it working in a Ubuntu environment :D That's why we had to decide for FusionForge as a technical basis for OXID projects. In the mean time, we have nearly 50 projects and 110 registered users on this system. That's actually not bad but let's face it - at the end of the day we have to admit that OXID projects as it exist now, is not nice to handle - probably "clumsy" would be the right word for it. And this is probably the most certain reason why we are not working actively with it, right? In the last few months I had a closer look at other systems and found out that GitHub is probably the most interesting alternative: - I installed an "organization" https://github.com/OXIDprojects/ so we can still have all OXID related projects on one place. - Git is a very modern and sophisticated VCS technology (in my eyes) - GitHub has a very nice front end for git and is free in the basic version - For me, the social components are very interesting, a lot of developers using it and follow each other. - "forking" possibilities with push and pull requests - one can have his own repository or work together with others although you don't join the project. - good possibilities for contributions... etc. - each project comes with a wiki (which is very basic but is usable) - each project comes with an issue tracker - and last not least: I know that devs usually are a bit lazy concerning writing texts etc. On GitHub, it is enough to leave a good description in the README of your project. No hassle with mandatory forms, assignments etc... Let me know what you think about it. Any objections? Thanks and regards Marco _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general
