[mapserver-dev] move to github ?

[Yves Jacolin]

Hello,

QGIS project also migrate to git and we think that will allow doc contributor 
to contribute more easily to correct typo or other small issue as Thomas 
explain it via the github website.

As far as I am concerned I will contribute more easily just forking the 
project instead of checkout/updating all the code depending which computer I 
am using (profesionnal or personnal computer).

Y.
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 11:27:20 thomas bonfort a écrit :
> Jeff,
> Not answering to your points here, rahter to some concerns Frank
> raised on IRC yesterday concerning contributions to the docs. My
> opinion is that the barrier of entry for doc contributions will
> actually be significantly lowered compared to our svn solution. This
> is especially  true for one-shot contributions, regular contributors
> would have to adapt to the git syntax like all the other devs, but
> this isn't particularly hard.
> 
> Here's the workflow for a one shot doc contribution, from someone
> who's not a doc committer:
> 
> - go to github, click on the "fork" button in the mapserver-docs
> repository to get your own doc tree
> - from the github interface, navigate to the file you want to fix in
> your forked branch
> - use the online editor to fix the typo you found, or add the
> paragraph that was missing
> - click on the "pull request" button, add your message: "Hi Jeff,
> there was a typo in  the ogc docs, here's the fix"
> 
> You now receive a notification about the change, merging it into the
> different doc branches is a click of a button. The user didn't have to
> install git or svn, download the mapserver-docs repository, open a
> trac ticket, attach a patch. Isn't that cool?
> 
> I also believe that our current strategy of branching the docs at each
> release could be simplified, reducing the work needed to commit doc
> changes to multiple branches as we do now.
> 
> regards,
> Thomas
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 14:47, Jeff McKenna
> 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> > My thoughts:
> > 
> > - I don't yet understand the full benefits of github, but that doesn't
> > mean I'm not open to it
> > - from the outside it seems that we should make this switch sooner than
> > later
> > - but we shouldn't commit to this until we have at least a few weeks of
> > funding for a Sys Admin at professional rates, so we can do this
> > properly (I saw the pain that Howard went through for the CVS-SVN
> > switch).  Actually I would give it a full month of funding, to help
> > along the changeover.  So have a pot of $5,000 USD dedicated just to
> > this changeover (I'm being open and putting rates here, but it's not
> > me/my work so Sys Admins please speak up with accurate cost/effort
> > estimates)
> > 
> > Thanks for listening.
> > 
> > -jeff
> > 
> > 
> > 
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