On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com> wrote: > > Indeed, I personally prefer git over svn quite a bit too. > > > > The one reason I have for sticking with Google is that I feel they are > > more likely to still be around in 5 years than GitHub. GitHub seems > > One advantage of git is that no repository is "master'. If GitHub > goes away, it's no big deal, you just host it somewhere else.
Yes, if you still have a copy of the repo. This was my point about "one big libwin32 repo" vs. individual repos for each module. Just for the sake of argument, let's say I get tired of maintaining Win32-OLE, remove all my local repos and one day GitHub goes away. Chris will then only have the Win32-IPC repo locally and Cosimo just the Win32-API repo, but Win32-OLE is gone (except for the releases on CPAN). If we keep all the modules in a single repo, then Chris and Cosimo will also have a local copy of the Win32-OLE change history (assuming they all exist in the "master" branch), so at least one of them could move the history elsewhere. But this is not really any different than for any other module that would be hosted on GitHub and isn't cloned by other people. So I think it isn't really a big deal. And I somewhat prefer the simplicity of breaking each CPAN distribution into its own git repo too. I would still like to hear what Chris thinks about moving to GitHub, and what Cosimo and Chris preferences would be about splitting things up into individual depos or not before making a decision. We can still continue to use libwin32@perl.org as the discussion list for all the modules, and continue to CC bug reports here. (And I will also start putting libwin32@perl.org into the "author" field of META.yml for most of the modules as well). > For something like libwin32, if you really want a "long term" repo, I > wonder if it's worth asking about hosting it at > http://perl5.git.perl.org/? I'm not sure if this is really needed. I think maybe my arguments have been a little on "worst case" side. Cheers, --Jan
