On 2 February 2015 at 20:04, Jorge Sanz <js...@osgeo.org> wrote: > 2015-02-02 18:54 GMT+01:00 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Frank, >> >> Thanks for your kind words :) >> >> My initial e-mail was a proposal to start discussing moving to git, it was >> not an official roadmap or a migration announcement. >> The goal of this thread is to hear voices of support or voices against the >> Git migration, to see if the developers want this or not. I have discussed >> this issue with lots of developers in the last couple of years, I would like >> to hear their voice here :) >> >> Your understanding is accurate: I just created the Git mirror so we can all >> evaluate how the repository would look like (with history and everything), >> but it is read only for now. In case there is a serious amount of pull >> requests from git, I have a backup plan to commit from Git to SVN but I >> would like to avoid for now :) >> >> Regarding the issue tracker: we could keep the one we currently use, with >> the Trac-Git plugin. I hope that SAC will be able to support us with this. >> We could also start thinking for other solutions like Redmine or Gitlab (for >> source and tracker) if we feel they are superior. >> My personal preference would be to use free solutions for our >> infrastructure. An OSGeo GitLab installation would be great to have. >> >> Cheers, >> Angelos >> >> > > I'm in favour of using OSGeo infrastructure if it doesn't prevent > collaboration, but that also means bugging SAC with more work so we > have to be sure. I haven't used Gitlab so I don't have an opinion on > it. Let me be clear, I like GitHub, it's great and all, but as OSGeo > Live is a project of the foundation, I think we have (for the good and > the bad) to be an example of how projects can work within OSGeo. > Indeed, I think OSGeo Live is an example of great FOSS4G > collaboration! >
I have the same idea, I would like to see also the OSGeo projects in the OSGeo infrastructure > Thinking aloud, and assuming we have an OSGeo git/gitlab installation, > do you guys know if it would be possible to have *easily* a double way > synchronization with GitHub or it would cause too much overhead? At > the end, I guess, nothing prevents to have a *main* GitHub repo (nice > for accepting contributions, nifty 1-click pull requests, etc) and a > mirror on an OSGeo git server, keeping the issue tracker in our Trac > or Gitlab. Am I right? > Yes we could install GitLab in OSGeo server https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ > My 2cts > My 2cents -- ciao Luca http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/ www.lucadelu.org _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
