[pdal] Re: Move to Github?

[Howard Butler]

At least it was a Friday afternoon :)

Thanks for migrating. It will lessen our administrative burden quite a bit. 

On Aug 19, 2011, at 8:09 PM, "Michael P. Gerlek" <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:

> (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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