On 3 April 2013 16:10, Kai Krueger <kakrue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > as many people seem to prefer using git over svn, we have decided to convert > the master repository of osm2pgsql and mod_tile over to git.
That's fantastic news! > Previously anyone who had an osm-svn account had commit access to the > repositories and could submit patches directly to the master repository, and > indeed people did take advantage of this (were forced to take advantage of > this). After the move to git, this will no longer be the case. For the > moment it is pretty limited who has push rights to the repository (Jon and > myself for mod_tile, and Sahra, Brian and myself for osm2pgsql), but that is > something that can be discussed and changed. Personally I am in favour of a > fairly open policy and would be happy to see others have push rights as > well. This is great too! > With that change I guess the bug tracking will also likely mainly move over > to the github issue trackers, although track tickets on > trac.openstreetmap.org now also get forwarded to the tile-serving mailing > list. Therefore they should be noticed and dealt with as well, if you prefer > to use trac. I hope to see the issues moving over to github, in order to remove any barriers to discovery for people working on the code. I find finding osm2pgsql-related tickets on trac a lot harder than finding osm2pgsql issues on github, to the point that in all the projects I work on, I very rarely bother trying to find tickets on trac. > As the new repositories live in the same location as previously the svn > mirrors you will need to re-check out those repositories, as the history has > been re-written to be a cleaner SVN conversion than the mirrors previously > were. I hope that doesn't cause any trouble or inconvenience for people who > have local forks of the previous mirror. That's a small price to pay :-) > Any comments or suggestions on the development process of these two projects > are welcome, For now, just my thanks for undertaking the work - it's really massively appreciated. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev