[pdal] Re: Move to Github?

Michael P. Gerlek mpg at flaxen.com
Fri Aug 19 21:09:31 EDT 2011


(It blew out the afternoon, but I have a functional repo on at least one of
my machines now...)

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdal-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:pdal-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Howard Butler
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 9:31 AM
> To: pdal at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [pdal] Re: Move to Github?
> 
> And we're live.
> 
> https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL
> 
> I used http://hg-git.github.com/ to synchronize the hg repository with the
> github one. Since we don't have any branches, it was quite simple.
> 
> If you still have some stuff you want to push back into the hg repository,
> please do so today, and I'll pull it over to the github repo.  I will 301
the
> repository to the https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL at the end of the day
> today.
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > Consider this notice that PDAL's repository will be moving to github
this
> weekend.  I am in the process of setting up the server to host
> http://pointcloud.org and it seems reasonable at this time to drop the
self-
> hosting of the Mercurial repository.
> >
> > I will not be porting over any of the old libPC trac tickets, so if
anything is
> still desired from there it will have to be manually copied over.  I can't
say I
> like github for its ticket system, but I think this will open up PDAL to
even
> more collaboration with a wider community and eliminate the administrative
> headache of managing users and tickets and spam.
> >
> > Please coordinate with me on IRC today if you have any issues.
> >
> > Howard
> >
> >
> > On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
> >
> >> Michael (and others who wish to chime in),
> >>
> >> I'd like to move the PDAL repository to github.  It's all the rage,
yada yada,
> but the major impetus is to offload user management.  Bitbucket is
> Mercurial-based, but I've had trouble with downtime with it, and github is
> rocking the house.  Note that I don't know squat about git, and i'll be
learning
> it as I go, but it is similar to hg in many concepts and ideas (and more
> powerful too -- at a usability cost).
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Howard
> >
> 
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