[geos-devel] Moving to github

[Howard Butler]

On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:26:12AM -0500, Howard Butler wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2011, at 3:32 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> 
>>> I'd have to create a "geos" organization and re-import the data
>>> with proper author identification and all branches, but I'm kind
>>> of lazy on that. Not a big deal as long as we have the SVN side of
>>> things...
>> 
>> Having the GEOS organization be the owner of the master git tree on
>> github and moving entirely to github for source control for the GEOS
>> project would be perfectly fine with me :)
> 
> With no SVN backup, you mean ?
> No more trac->changeset reference (r### won't be enough) ?
> It's a pity to loose that kind of support.
> I'd be happier with an OSGEO solution.
> 
> Anyway, if you are willing to spend some time on it, a GEOS organization
> and a better imported history (with proper authorship and branches ?) would
> be worth a try. 

OpenLayers is working on getting git+Trac working on the OSGeo instance. We could do that too when things become available, and I do not have a strong opinion either way. github's pull requests are a killer feature though.

Howard