[geos-devel] GIT repo url updated

[Regina Obe]

strk,

I'm so proud of you.  You kept your cool and answered well.  I can't say I would have handled Hobu's negativity as well.
Looking forward to using gitea more.  Thanks for all the hard work.

Experimentation is very important to explore new avenues of working.  
We must not all follow the beat of the same drum for there lies the death of creation.


Thanks,
Regina



-----Original Message-----
From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:32 AM
To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [geos-devel] GIT repo url updated

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 07:29:34PM -0600, Howard Butler wrote:

> > Following an upgrade of OSGeo GIT hostign services technology from 
> > Gogs to Gitea [1] the official GEOS git repository URL changed to:
> > 
> >  https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/geos/geos.git
> 
> Why are the URLs changing and not stable?

Because the service was (and still is) experimental.
It changed URl a few times already, but always with proper redirects left in place.

> Should we expect to have to sed our repositories ever few months as 
> OSGeo changes its infrastructure over and over again?

You can keep the old URL, it'll still work. It's just nice to recognize what we're using (Gitea, no more Gogs) and avoids an hop to directly go to the new URL.

> For reference, the GitHub "mirror" hasn't moved

It actually was, used to be on libgeos/libgeos before Mat moved it to osgeo/geos. I did change my git config at that time (although also GitHub provides redirects).

> has 80 forks and nearly 30 people watching it

I'm glad the mirror is being effective.

> The base of contributors who wish to participate is there.

Nobody wants to kick them out. Pull requests are open.

> Is easier to get a bank account than an OSGeo ID nowadays.

Last time I checked banks wanted national ID cards, we are ok with a trustworthy email or website :)

> It's like this project doesn't want people to contribute.

Why do you think so ? I love good contributions.

> Why must this project keep tilting at this windmill?

It's actually pretty stable. Still using Trac, still on OSGeo, and not having many commits either. The biggest recent move has been from SVN to GIT, was it too much wind for you ?
Should we move back to SVN ? (I didn't start this :P)

--strk;
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