+1 to that, as long as we keep stuff properly mirrored in ASF and so on. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sebgoa" <run...@gmail.com> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, 19 December, 2015 09:12:14 > Subject: [DISCUSS] Move to Github > Hi folks, > > Apologies for a week end email couple days before christmas, but this needs to > get out. > > Late October I started thread [1] about moving our repo to GitHub, I would > like > to re-open this discussion. > > Now that we have stabilized master and release 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7.0 > we > need to think about the next steps. > > To me Git and GitHub has become an essential tool to any software development, > not using it to its full potential is hurting us. > > Just as an example I would like to point you to [2], this a PR I made to > Kubernetes (a container orchestrator), it literally added 14 characters in a > json file. > This was really a very minor change. > > The PR automatically triggered 3 bots which created 7 labels, it ran end to > end > testss, Jenkins jobs and triggered third part builds. > It was automatically merged. > > This is just an example of things that we could build with proper access to > Github. > > Currently we don't have that access and we don't have the privileges to do > what > we should be doing in terms of CI. > > There are on-going discussion at the board level of the ASF to see if a > project > purely hosted on GitHub could be an ASF project. > The biggest issue there is independence to vendor tools (yes github is a > vendor) > and provenance of the commits. > The ASF committership and release process guarantees that the source of > commits > and hence the history of the code is well known at all times. > > Bottom line: > > I would like us to use Github and hence I would like us to request to the ASF > infra and board that CloudStack be allowed to move to GitHub. > For this to happen of course, we need a consensus decision. > > Thanks and merry christmas, > > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/inwfcsbqlqmfddhh > [2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/18823
