Hi, On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 07:09:42PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> I don't know github.com. But not why simply host (a secondary/backup > of) the Hurd wiki on the GNU Savannah machine already now? Then we > can -- later, when the needed infrastructure is in place -- just do a > clean switch-over (from Barry's flubber to GNU Savannah; for the main > wiki repository). > > I'd prefer if such things would go over some of the Hurd mailing > lists, before something is said to have been decided in an IRC > channel. Which none of the GNU Hurd maintainers is really regularely > frequenting. Well, I do actually see one problem with hosting it on Savannah: It means every wiki committer needs To have a Savannah account, be part of the Hurd project, and have commit rights. (Which means commit rights to all Hurd stuff, unless Savannah has a way to selectively give commit permissions for individual git repositories...) But maybe that's not really a big issue, considering that with the need for copyright assignment, outsiders are not very likely to be interested in Git access to the wiki anyways... The real reason for setting up a repository on github is that discussing things on the mailing list; waiting for some Savannah Hurd admin to set things up etc.; is precisely *not* what we wanted here -- we need a *quick* and easy solution for the needs of organising GSoC stuff. (Especially as you are the only admin who has been active over the past two years or so, and even you have been mostly absent over the past couple of months.) To make matters worse, when I asked you a couple of days ago what you propose to do about the wiki situation, you gave me an answer that, quite frankly, sounded like "wait and pray" -- so I decided to take initiative and look for another solution. Luckily, with the decentralized nature of Git, this in to problem at all. (Except perhaps for some additional noise in the history...) Note that I have no objection to using the Savannah repository, once it actually exists *and* all the involved people have commit access... -antrik-
