Hi,
In my opinion, a move to GitHub or any other Git-based system could benefit the
PoDoFo project in terms of contributions.
Subversion makes it very hard to maintain a fork with your own patches, and the
current process for getting a patch into PoDoFo seems to rely a lot on manual
labor. I'm afraid the current process (and Subversion) poses a barrier for some
people when it comes to contributing to PoDoFo.
On top of that, it seems that patches sent to the mailing list are sometimes
overlooked or forgotten, which is not exactly a motivating factor for
contributors.
The strength of GitHub is that it's easy to create your own fork where you can
commit your changes. Once you're ready, you send a pull request to the main
project to get your changes incorporated/accepted.
Until your PR is accepted, it's easy to keep your fork up-to-date with the main
project, so you don't have to wait for your patch to be accepted before you can
use it yourself.
For the maintainer, reviewing and accepting a contribution (in the shape of a
pull request) is done with a few clicks in a browser. This could help speed up
the process of getting submitted patches into the main PoDoFo repo.
GitHub is pretty much the standard for hosting open-source projects, so
basically every future potential contributor will already be familiar with the
process of forking and sending pull requests, but there are plenty of
alternatives that provide pretty much the same advantages.
It's basically all about making it as easy as possible for people to
contribute.
Personally I've only contributed a single patch to PoDoFo, because the bug was
a show stopper for me. I don't bother doing minor contributions because the
it's basically too troublesome to contribute, compared to the work that would
actually go into the code itself.
But that's just my point of view.
Best Regards,
Thomas Barnekov
-----Original Message-----
From: zyx <z...@gmx.us>
Sent: 12. august 2020 09:32
To: podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Podofo-users] Any plans to relocate to github?
On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 10:01 +0500, Ivan Romanov via Podofo-users wrote:
> My question in title.
Hi,
I hope not. I do not think the move itself would make the project more
attractive to the contributors. Though that would be nice to see (more
contributors, not the move to GitHub).
Just my personal opinion, I'm not the decision maker here.
Bye,
zyx
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