[Geotools-devel] [jira] (GEOT-4156) Transition to GitHub

Sun, 27 May 2012 05:35:53 -0700

Issue Type: Wish Wish
Assignee: Jody Garnett
Components: admin
Created: 27/May/12 7:34 AM
Description:

As per our blog post on the topic:

Hi all,
the GeoTools developers have been working, so far, with Subversion as the main version control system. However various core developers have been using Git as a SVN client for quite some time so far, and an official mirror of Geotools, automatically kept in synch with Subversion, is already available on GitHub.

We are now considering switching permantently from Subversion to Git, meaning the Subversion repository will eventually be abandoned and only the Git official central repo will be kept up to date.
Before making such move we'd like to hear from the users community, please take one minute to share your opinion about the switch to Git:

The results of this poll were:

  • 17% I'd prefer you to keep on using SVN
  • 14% It's the same to me
  • 06% I'd like Mecurial better
  • 00% I'd like Bazaar better
  • 64% Switching to Git is Great

With 212 votes (this is greater than our number of comitters!)

There are three more hesitations which have now been resolved:

1) The active developers needed to be comfortable with the use of git. This has now taken place.
2) We needed a good story to tell for windows developers. With the release of the github windows client we now have a sensible suggestion.
3) GeoTools 8

This is not a suggestion to move to git - it is a proposal to move to github:

  • uDig found that using http://gitorious.org/ worked out well - but still failed due to lack of documentation. Indeed most advice on using git comes from the github docs; stack exchange where github is always used as an example.
  • The ease of use of the "fork me" / "pull request" workflow provides the critical glue to allow an open source project to work; as distributed version control no longer provides the motivation for contributors to obtain direct commit access.
  • github is simply fashionable. Anecdotal evidence of this is an "if it is not on github must be dead" attitude encountered on IRC
Project: GeoTools
Priority: Major Major
Reporter: Jody Garnett
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