Hi folks, We are considering migration of ITK's software process to GitHub, and we would like your feedback.
As an open-source, community-driven project, mechanisms to communicate and interact with the community are a high priority for ITK. Contributing should be as easy as possible. Increasingly over the past many years, GitHub has become the de facto place to interact for open source development. It is now a hub for: Microsoft Facebook Google The Scientific Python Community The 3D Slicer Community Our InsightSoftwareConsortium GitHub organization [1] already has 67 people in it and 74 repositories. There are hundreds of projects that depend on ITK on GitHub. Many ITK developers are familiar with the development process on GitHub (i.e the pull request process) and already have an account on this platform. There are also advantages to linking issues and commits with other projects and repositories. Since ITK thrives on the open-source development idea, everyone who wants to help the project should be able to contribute, and therefore it should be as easy as possible to start participating in the community. Recently, GitHub's code review capabilities have greatly improved, which make it more feasible to coordinate contributions for a large project like ITK. And, there are many existing GitHub-integrated services that we can leverage. Thanks to resources from the National Library of Medicine and technological advances, it is now feasible to migrate the project's software process to GitHub. There are many infrastructural aspects to the migration, and it would take multiple months to complete. Please let us know your thoughts before we embark on the journey. [1] https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers
