[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Julien Michel]

Le 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett a écrit :
> Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy 
> of the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ... 

Well, of course source code is safe with the distributed SCM paradigm. 
And I agree that Github is the social network of developers (that is why 
I said that all projects should have an official github mirror). I am 
more worried about all the secondary services offered: wiki, bugtracker, 
binary packages hosting ...

For what it is worth, I would like to cite two personal examples. In our 
project, we tried to get out of Jira to move to Tuleap [1]. After 
several months trying to export/import the complete set of information 
we have in Jira, we abandonned the idea. Sure we can leave, be we will 
leave behind a great deal of valuable stuff there. More recently, we 
moved our binary packages hosting out of Sourceforge. But ... in fact 
you can not remove a project from Sourceforge [2], so we have to write a 
redirection message. We can simply not cut the link with it. I agree 
that these are minor issues that do not impact the project itself, but 
somewhere on the road, we lost a bit of freedom.

Thanks to all of you for your comments,

Regards,

Julien

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/easyhtml5/tracinst/Removing%20a%20project/

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Julien MICHEL
CNES - DCT/SI/AP