[geos-devel] Moving to github

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 21/09/11 17:08, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:44:28PM +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> On 21/09/11 16:25, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:48:03AM -0500, Howard Butler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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 be happier with an OSGEO solution.
>>>>
>>>> I do not have a strong opinion either way.
>>>
>>> For the time being, I've created a "libgeos" organization on github
>>> ("geos" was taken already) and added those who I could clearly
>>> recognize already having an account on github as owners.
>>
>> Great.
>>
>>> If anyone has time to do a proper import (with correct authorship
>>> information) please go ahead. I can setup a new sync cronjob on
>>> the new import.
>>
>> What is your preferred way?
>> I maintain GDAL at GitHub according to these:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UsingGitToMaintainGDALWorkflow
>>
>> IOW, how someone can make the import, so you can configure the
>> cronjob on different machine/setup?
>
> Actually I don't know what's the best way to do this kind of things by
> also including all branches. Neither my nor your setup did that, right ?

First issue to solve is to find a machine which is online 24/7 and can 
run the cronjob. Manual maintenance/update is unreliable.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
Member of ACCU, http://accu.org