On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 00:27, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you're one of the guilty or know the contact info for them please >> add it to USERINFO/ > > Probably some people don't want to publish their real name or e-mail > address publicly.
They should still add a USERINFO file. You can just set "name" to your nickname (or SVNID) and email: to an empty value to specifically. A non-public E-Mail is more odd, if you do any development on MediaWiki then you're going to use Bugzilla or MediaWiki-l or Wikitech-l which all require an E-Mail address and will make it public without any attempt at obfuscation. But if you *really* don't want a public E-Mail address if we convert to Git despite that then you can just put an empty "email: " key in the USERINFO file. > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What we're trying to do is: >> >> * Set up a git-svn mirror on github which people can use to work with >> MediaWiki's SVN through Git >> >> We've been given free hosting by Github to do this there: >> http://support.github.com/discussions/site/1281-are-you-interested-in-giving-me-free-space-to-host-mediawikigit >> >> Even if you don't want to use git-svn it's nice to have a mirror or >> Github just because it makes it easy for a lot of people already there >> to follow the project. > > IMO, we want git hosting on Wikimedia servers. With git, it's trivial > to move the actual repository later, but it's not trivial to update > all the links people have been using. I don't want a repeat of the > situation with SourceForge, where we had people downloading ancient > versions of MediaWiki for years because we couldn't point SourceForge > to the new official site. That *is* a very real risk if we're using > hosting we don't control. > > If people prefer working with github, of course, we could have the > official(-er) one at git.wikimedia.org, and keep a copy at github that > automatically pulls from the Wikimedia one. But I really don't think > we want to point people to github.com URLs as the *primary* source to > get MediaWiki via git, just as a secondary option. We don't even have a working conversion yet, talking about eventual hosting for the Official Wikimedia Git if and when it happens is really premature. The issues you cite with SourceForge aren't going to be a problem anywhere else though; SF is a really special case of a fail singularity :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
