On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:40 PM, James Turnbull wrote:
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> Luke Kanies wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
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>>> Hey devs,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if people thought it might be a good idea to host
>>> the
>>> official git repo on GitHub. I don't have a strong opinion on
>>> this, I
>>> just thought it might be nice to have access to some of GitHub's
>>> features that we would get if we could 'fork' the project on
>>> GitHub to
>>> create our developer repositories. The last time we talked about
>>> this,
>>> GitHub was having growing pains, but they have been quite stable
>>> recently.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I mentioned this to Luke and he suggested I bring it up for
>>> discussion. What do you think?
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>> Just for the record, I'm completely fine with this; I'd want to use a
>> non-human account like 'reductivelabs' or something, but otherwise,
>> it
>> doesn't matter where it is. Hopefully at some point Github will add
>> all kinds of interesting graphs and stats, too, so that would be even
>> more compelling.
>>
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> I have no major issues but some concerns:
>
> Availability and stability - we've had some issues with this in the
> past
> on Github. Be annoying if GitHub deadpooled too.
I agree with that, but I also agree with Paul that it's been pretty
damn stable for a while now.
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> Communication - the stable repository has been at RL, my Github, now
> back at RL. If we make this change we need to make sure everyone gets
> the message. Personally, I'd be a little confused.
Yeah, but I'm not convinced people have quite realized that the stable
is no longer your repo, so it might be a good time to switch to
minimize confusion, assuming we actually do switch.
That is, before it's completely settled back on the RL repo, switch so
that people don't have to learn it twice in short succession.
--
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
-- Inigo DeLeon
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