Robert, We have been using github for the osgEarth project and we're happy with it. Here are some pros:
Github's pull-request system is nice (as a replacement for the osg-submissions process). You can do your diff analysis right in the browser. Here's an example: http://goo.gl/KacWp The integrated wiki is supposedly git-backed, i.e. all your wiki pages are stored in a repository alongside the source repo. So in theory migrating the existing wiki over should be a matter of pushing the files up there. (Haven't tried it though.) Github also has an integrated issue-tracker if you decide to use it someday. Glenn Waldron / Pelican Mapping / @glennwaldron On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Robert Osfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to start a discussion about migrating our website and > version control services to new servers and feel this might be a good > opportunity to change the technology that we use on the server for > providing the website and version control services. One of the > reasons that adds a little imperative to the move is that the current > hosts of our server AI2, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, > look unlikely to be able to continue providing due to funding cuts. > Technology wise it would also be good to find a better wiki and > version control system. We also need engineers to help out with > migration and ongoing maintenance of new servers and services that > will be moving too. > > There is a wide range of different hosts and technologies we could > use, and I'm happy to admit that I'm no expect in hosting, webserves, > wiki management, version control systems, but this is a huge community > so no doubt there is lots opinions, and perhaps even a few experts out > there that might be able to help out with great suggestions and time > to make things happen. > > To help kick things off. On the hosting side I currently have a > Dreamhost account that provides the mailing lists services that we > currently use, and my account looks to be sufficient for provide a > Tracs and Subversion services as well - so pontentially we could move > to Dreamhost and rely upon them for management of the server and > server software and let us concentrate on the content. I really don't > know how well this would work out having not tried to migrate services > other than mailman across to them. If we do have to move existing > services across quickly this might be strong contender. > > Technology wise I am comfortable with Subversion, but for fully > distributed it's not as powerful as newer technologies like git. > We've discussed both Mercurial and git on the mailing list before as > possible contenders and feedback I've got from various experiments out > in the community is that git looks to be most practical for our needs. > Rather spend lots of time discussing the pros and cons of these two > technologies I'm happy to narrow things down to migrating to git. > What is open for discussion is really when and how we migrate to git. > > One possibility with migrating to git would be to have our own server, > use a host like Dreamhost or go with another 3rd party like github. > For the latter there is already a mirror of our subversion repository > hosted over at github maintained by members of the community (please > come forward as I've forgotten who set it up :-) : > > https://github.com/openscenegraph/osg > > I haven't used git too much yet other than to check out third party > libs, but when the time comes I'll just have to roll my sleeves and > dive and learn to use it properly. > > github also now have their own wiki, Gollum: > > https://github.com/features/projects/wikis > > I know nothing about Gollum so can't comment on it, I'm not overly > impressed by Tracs - it's been sufficient but not that that powerful, > so I'm reluctant to go with yet another dev wiki that is almost by not > quite as powerful as the likes of MediaWiki. I have to admit that I > really don't know too much about the practical behind the scenes > management of MediaWiki let alone Gollum and Tracs so I really need to > feedback from the community of the various strengths, weaknesses and > practicalities. > > Finally once we've decided upon hosts for our needs, and the > technologies that we migrate too we'll need to do the migration of our > present wiki and version control systems. We'll need the engineers to > help our with coordinating and undertaking this work. Once we've got a > basic plan and the people in place we start migrating bit by bit. > > I look forward to your thoughts and in particular your offers of > assistance ;-) > > Cheers, > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >
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