[geos-devel] GEOS RFC 10 - Move Project to GitHub

[Martin Davis]

+1

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:13 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> http://libgeos.org/development/rfcs/rfc10/
>
> GitHub has been the largest source of 3rd party code contribution via
> pull-requests for some time now.
>
> Moving to Github has the following components:
>
>         • Move the canonical (writeable) repository to GitHub
>         • Migrate the (current, useful) contents of the Trac wiki to the
> new web framework
>         • Deleting the migrated and out-of-date contents of the Trac wiki
>         • Switching the Trac tickets to read-only
>         • Web scraping the Trac ticket contents and placing in a
> geos-old-tickets repo
> At that point:
>
>         • New code is pushed to GitHub
>         • New issues are filed at GitHub
>         • New documentation is committed to the repository
> This should unlock:
>
>         • Easier path for new contributors to discover and assist with the
> project
>         • Easier collaboration with downstream projects
>         • Far easier story on “how to we manage the project” and “where
> the important things happen”
>         • Far less dependence on individual contributors for
> infrastructure work that only they can do
>
>
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