[gdal-dev] [update] Re: Travis CI continuous integration service for GDAL

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 10 octobre 2012 15:48:48, Etienne Tourigny a écrit :
> IMHO git (with github) is a great platform for collaboration.  You
> might find yourself swamped with pull requests though...

I'd be curious to know if the current use of SVN really deters people from 
contributing to GDAL, whereas they would contribute more actively if GIT was 
used as the prime VCS (*).

My feeling is that the main barrier to contribution lies more in understanding 
how the source works rather than the tools around.

Anyway, whatever the VCS, as you underlined, you still need competent eyes to 
review, comment on, fix by themselves the patch or ask the contributor to do 
changes, apply, or reject patches... Trac has already such patches waiting.

But as a SVN committer, my opinion is obviously biased since contributing is 
of course more straighforward than for a non-GDAL committer. GIT has certainly 
a more egalitarian approach (everyone can commit or fork), although that 
someone that hasn't push rights can only send pull requests to the main 
repository.

My knowledge of GIT is rather limited, but, for a GDAL contributor without 
commit (SVN)/push(GIT) rights to the main repository, what improvements would 
a full move to GIT would offer with respect to the current git-svn mirroring ?

Best regards,

Even

(*) What would be interesting to know also is : wouldn't a move to GIT deter 
current GDAL contributors ?