Hi all, Over the past few weeks, several of us have been looking into a potential move of the core Fedora Repository code to GitHub. During today's developer call, we decided the investigation had progressed along far enough that we should call a vote. Please feel free to chime in even if you aren't a committer, especially if you have first-hand experience with git or another DVCS.
Proposal: Migrate the existing subversion repository, hosted at sourceforge.net, to git, hosted at github.com. Primary motivations: 1) Ease of contributing for non-committers (the fork + pull model). 2) Speed (everyone has a copy of the repo and most operations -- branching, merging, examining history -- are done locally) Why git and not some other DVCS like Mercurial? The technical differences between hg and git don't seem significant enough to debate. One big difference we've noted is that github seems to have quite a bit more community around it than the other DVCS hosting options. Tool support for git is pretty good these days, too: Git plugins exist for IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse. Mature git commandline tools exist for linux, mac, and windows. We have also successfully integrated: a) a plugin for JIRA which provides links to github-hosted commit info that relates to a particular issue. b) a plugin for Bamboo (our CI server) which polls a github-hosted repository. Voting Period: Two weeks (Ending December 7th) Requirement to pass: Majority (more +1 than -1 votes among committers) I'll register the first vote: +1 - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
