On 5/1/15, 10:56 AM, "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles at intel.com> wrote:
>Hi Everyone, > >I believe the DPDK community would benefit from moving to GitHub as the >primary DPDK site. http://github.com Here is a good page showing the GitHub features: https://github.com/features/ > >I believe the DPDK community can benefit from being at a very well know >world wide site. GitHub seems to have the most eyes of any of the open >source Git repos today and it appears they have more then twice as many >developers. GitHub has a number of features I see as some good additions >to >our community using the GitHub organization account type. > >The cost for an organization account is $0 as long as we do not need more >then 5 private repos. 10 private repos is $25/month and had other plans >for more. I do not see us needing more then 5 private repos today and the >only reason I can see having a private repo is to do some prep work on the >repo before making public. Every contributor would need to create a GitHub >personal account, which is at no cost unless you need more then 5 private >repos. In both accounts you can have unlimited public repos. > >https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to- >w >ork-on/ > >http://www.sitepoint.com/using-git-open-source-projects/ > >- Adding more committers can lead to a security problems for 6Wind (I >assume). >- 6Wind appearing to own DPDK.org is not a good message to the community. > - Not assuming 6Wind?s dpdk.org site will disappear only where the >community stores the master repos and how the community interacts with the >master. >- Permission and access levels in dpdk.org is only one level and we can >benefit from having 4 levels and teams as well. >- The patch process today suffers from timely reviews, which will not be >fixed by moving. > - GitHub has a per pull request discussions area, which gives a clean >way to review all discussions on a specific change. > - The current patch model is clone/modify/commit/send patch set > - The model with GitHub is fork on GitHub/modify/commit/send pull >request >- The patchwork web site is reasonable, but has some draw backs in >maintaining the site. > - GitHub manages the patches via pull requests and can be easily seen >via a web browser. > - The down side is you do have to use a web browser to do some work, but >the bulk of the everyday work would be done as it is today. > - I think we all have a web browser now :-) >- GitHub has team support and gives a group better control plus >collaboration is much easier as we have a external location to work. > - Most companies have some pretty high security level and being to >collaborate between two or more companies is very difficult if one company >is hosting the repo behind a firewall. > - Using GitHub and teams would make collaboration a lot easier or >collaboration between two or more user accounts as well. >- GitHub has a Web Page system, which can be customized for the community >needs via a public or private repo. >- We still need a dpdk.org email list I believe as I did not find one at >GitHub. > - We can also forward GitHub emails to the list. > - I believe you can reply to an email from GitHub and the email will get >appended to the discussion thread. > >As most do not like to read long emails :-) I will stop here and add one >more thing. > >I believe moving to GitHub for the DPDK community has a lot of advantages, >but I also understand it will be different process and will cause a bit of >issues as we convert. Having more eyes plus in a well know public location >plus utilizing the extra features on Github plus a better public >modifiable web pages is a few big advantages for the DPDK community. > >I have create a sandbox on GitHub for anyone to play with using GitHub. >You will need to create a GitHub account and an email me your account name >to add you to the organization site as a contributor. > >The GitHub site is not a fork of dpdk.org only a sandbox to play with how >GitHub can help the community to gain more developers in a clean manner. > >https://github.com/dpdk-org > > >Regards >++Keith > > > > > >
