[OpenLayers-Dev] Potential move to GitHub

[Tim Schaub]

And, importantly, among the "more developers that already use it" are 
all the active OpenLayers core committers.

On 3/8/11 5:30 AM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:36 AM, ext Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote:
>
>> Le 08/03/2011 08:10, Eric Lemoine a écrit :
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Thank you Chris. Moving the trunk to Github sounds great to me. But we
>>> indeed need to find a solution for the sandboxes. Keeping them in the
>>> current SVN repo, and having some doc/tutorial explaining a working
>>> workflow for sandbox development, could be a possibility. As far as
>>> the ticket system is concerned, I think I'd also like to continue
>>> using Trac. But providing links to Git commits in tickets would
>>> probably mean long URLs, there may be Trac plugins to deal with such
>>> things (<http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin>).
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using Git sounds great to me to, even if I'm not involved in OpenLayers
>> dev I use the dev version often. Before moving to github please consider
>> Gitorious as a solution too. OpenLayers is a free (as free speech)
>> project like Gitorious but not Github, so I consider logical that free
>> developers use free tools.
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/
>
> Please read my previous responses regarding why I would choose Github
> over Gitorious, specifically:
>
> "Nokia is a strong Gitorious supporter, so I have considered using it for
> several different projects. I have consistently found that many of the
> features that make git less painful that I care about are only on GitHub.
> Importantly to me personally is the network browser, which (since
> Git doesn't have it built in) is dependent on people being on the same
> host: at that point, GitHub simply has a bigger network effect, because
> more developers already use it. "
>
>   -- http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-dev/2011-February/007194.html
>
>> Regards
>>
>> PS : I'm just a user of gitorious not at all involved in the project
>>
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