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

[Paul Ramsey]

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	• Deleting the migrated and out-of-date contents of the Trac wiki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