I've only just signed my Outercurve agreement and have not yet contributed
to WiX. Like many of the other folks who have responded, I prefer moving
sooner than later.
I like the idea of moving to GitHub for a few reasons (listed below).
Others have mentioned these as well.
* Wiki
o In addition to the official documentation, I like the idea of hosting a
public (moderated) wiki on GitHub. The WiX documentation is very useful,
especially to those who already know how to use WiX. I'd like to see more
"Examples" and "How to" articles. A Wiki would be a good place for public
users to contribute that type of content outside the context of the official
documentation.
o The tutorial at http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/ is excellent. It's where I
started. Clearly many hours have been spent to create and maintain the
content there. Without that tutorial, I'm not sure I'd be as successful
with WiX as I have been. That being said, WiX 4.0 sounds like a big change.
I believe new users would benefit greatly from a similar tutorial for WiX
4.0. Why not host one in the public (moderated) Wiki on GitHub?
* Issues
o I really like the way that GitHub associates Issues with Pull Requests,
Commits, and Changes. I know that Codeplex can do something similar. IMHO,
the integration is far better on GitHub.
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 12:52 PM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: [WiX-devs] The Great GitHub Discussion
In today's WiX Online Meeting http://youtu.be/4QlCTgmS33Y (about minute 10)
I spent about 15 minutes talking about the reasons to move to GitHub. At
this point, I believe it is inevitable that we will move the question is
when and what it should look like when we move.
First, in the move we'll be breaking history. We'll start from scratch to
clean up our messy history and get the crazy whitespace issues all sorted
out (the problem driving this move). That means when we do this, you'll have
to go to a different repo to go fully back in time. Keep that in mind
reading on.
When.
When do you think we should move? Should we go now in the middle of v3.9 and
v4.0? Should we wait to move when each next version (v3.10 and v4.1) is
ready to start?
I already have a couple votes (thank you Blair and Bruce) for moving
basically now. I'm looking for more opinions. Even if your opinion is "It
doesn't matter to me." Voting helps me get a good idea what people want.
What.
As mentioned in the Online Meeting (if you haven't listened yet, please do),
GitHub provides a few new degrees of freedom. The biggest is that we have an
"umbrella organization" that can own multiple repositories. Today, on
CodePlex, we have to squish all of our stuff into a single repository which
is unfortunate. Some examples what GitHub would allow us to do:
1. Create a repo for the "website". I think this is a pretty obvious
move and will make it clearer where to go to improve content on
http://wixtoolset.org/.
2. Create a repo per major version of WiX toolset. In other words,
there would be "wix3" and "wix4" repos. This would allow us to use "master"
branch correctly (wix3 repo master branch would hold v3.8) and "develop"
branch (wix3 repo develop branch would hold v3.9). That sounds great to me
but there is a downside. You'd no longer be able to have one repo on disk
and switch between all versions of the WiX toolset. Personally, I don't work
that way anyway (I have separate folders with wix39 and wix40 on my machine)
but it's something we should discuss here.
Anyway, please vote for when and if you have thoughts on how to organize our
code in GitHub let's discuss them.
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