2010/5/26 Stéfan van der Walt <[email protected]>: > On 26 May 2010 16:12, Travis Oliphant <[email protected]> wrote: >> I changed the subject line for this thread, since I didn't want to >> hijack another thread. Anyway, I am not proposing that we actually >> decide whether to move to git and github now, but I am just curious >> how people would feel. We had a conversation about this a few years >> ago and it was quite contentious at the time. Since then, I believe a >> number of us have started using git and github for most of our work. >> And there are a number of developers using git-svn to develop numpy >> now. So I was curious to get a feeling for what people would think >> about it, if we moved to git. (I don't want to rehash the arguments >> for the move.) >> >> I think we are ready for such a move. Someone should think about the >> implications, though (with Trac integration, check-in mailings, etc.) and >> make sure we get something we all like. Somebody probably has thought >> through all of these things already, though. > > Awesome, if there's enough interest I'll help Jarrod out on the NEP. > I've been looking at GitHub's Trac integration, and it seems that we > should be able to have the same level of integration with the > bugtracker as we currently do. Their plugin is available here: > > http://github.com/davglass/github-trac/ > > The SVN-checkout functionality should take care of the build bot. As > a bonus, we no longer have to administrate user accounts. Converting > the SVN repo to Git should pose no problem. > > Regards > Stéfan > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
You are all probably aware of this, but I just wanted it said. I do understand the advantage of being able to pull from someone's Python 3 branch (like scipy) as well as some of the more experimental side like the proposed refactoring. All that I ask is that there is one official place to do 'git clone' or 'git pull' from a single official branch. I do not think that it is good to tell users to pull from different branches especially if these branches have conflicts. It also provides a common foundation to troubleshoot problems (of course you don't see it because you don't have that branch...). Yet I do understand that any release candidate can be pulled from any tree (as happens with the Linux kernel) and that this should be more of guide than a fixed rule. Bruce _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
