Honestly +1 here.

I have pretty much all of my repos hosted under Github and their patch and
review process is *easy* particularly when combined with the new Gerrit
system that's free for FOSS projects.

Trevor


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Ronald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> from a personal perspective, as a github users (read biased opinion), I've
> been refrained from contributing and publishing diffs because:
> - the process of patch approval was not clear,
> - communication around a patch is made difficult by mail (which are
> already follinwg throughout the days)
> - current open issues are not listed and cannot be discussed by the
> community (to propose patch for instance)
>
> I have the feeling that a move to github would make lots of things clear
> for global collaboration. Although, the fact that the project is hosted at
> fedora is a good quality stamp/branding :)
>
> my two cents.
>
> Ronald
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Shawn Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 4/8/14, 10:16 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, what happened with this in the end?
>>>
>>> I just noticed a few more suggestions that Github-style pull requests
>>> would be really useful.
>>>
>>
>> There were valid opinions expressed for both staying on FedoraHosted and
>> migrating to GitHub. So, effectively, a stalemate.
>>
>> The SSG community has grown amazingly -- both in contributors and usage
>> -- and because of this success Red Hat is preparing to ship SSG in future
>> versions of RHEL [1]. This exacerbates the need for a manageable ticketing
>> system with easy patch submission as very shortly every RHEL installation
>> will have a copy of SSG. FedoraHosted simply wasn't designed to include the
>> same tooling and developer ecosystem as afforded on GitHub (and that's NOT
>> a ding against it's designers!).
>>
>> The community is a coalition of the willing. Our shared purpose drives
>> the community, and I strongly feel the need to build out tools that will
>> allow us to scale. I'm concerned -- likely overly so -- at how to prepare
>> for a wave of interest once we begin shipping in RHEL.
>>
>> With that said, who am I to *mandate* the migration to GitHub? Admittedly
>> part of me wants to just go ahead and do it, however that could come at
>> making a non-trivial amount of people (esp. committers, who would be
>> effected by the change) feel alienated/ignored. Certainly we can't make
>> everyone happy all the time, though.
>>
>> Thoughts would be *most* welcome.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038655
>>
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