Hi antrik, 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...)
These things are involved in github.com also, but not as stringent. To commit to a repository at github.com one needs an account at github.com. The procedure of creating a new account is so simple that it should not take more than a minute to get an account ready. And after that what all it needs is to upload SSH Key and send me the login name at github.com. But since I will be online most of the time, sending a mail to me and getting this done should not take much time. 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... That's absolutely true. In fact this is what is keeping some of them away from contributing ;-) > 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.) I should have said this in my first mail to Thomas. Sorry for not making it clear. Thank you a lot for telling this. 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...) I am both waiting and praying from many days ;-) -- Thanks and regards, Madhusudan.C.S Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info
