On 11 Dec 2010, at 22:46, Sean Coates wrote:

>> = Configuration and Users =
>> I have absolutely no experience setting up or maintaining a git repo. I like 
>> user-based authentication in SVN because you don't have to worry about 
>> exchanging SSH keys. If there were a web interface that allowed users to 
>> manage the key on their own that would at least partially mitigate the 
>> problem. I suspect that a lot of people contributing, particularly to 
>> -extras, would not know how to create or share an SSH key, which would 
>> further complicate the process of introducing new users to our system.
> 
> I don't want to step on Owen's one requirement, but Github *would* take care 
> of this for us, I think.


Just run across https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite which would let us 
self-host official git repos with the same access control we currently have 
with svn. It's a cinch to then mirror those repos to github (post-receive hook 
to push changes to github repos.)

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