[postgis-devel] repository hosting

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 07:32:38AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I see a move to git as not primarily benefitting those with commit
> privileges.  Those people can commit changes when they judge them to be
> sound, so they don't tend to carry changes.  The benefit of git is in
> keeping changes from unauthorized committers (almost all people, and the
> pool of future committers) within the tool.  When I work on NetBSD, I
> will often get a patch from people.  99% it does not come with a
> fully-written suitable commit message.  With git, the unit of what you
> review is a commit, and the message is part of that.  So the real point
> is that git separates authority to make changes and ability to prepare a
> complete change.

Had you tried git-svn ? It lets you use git locally just fine while
still tracking an upstream SVN. That's what I use on my development
machine, and all I have to do to sync with upstream is:

  git svn rebase

> The other point is what tools new people are familiar with.   That
> really seems to be git.
> 
> All that said, I have not found the use of svn or submitting patches in
> tickets to be a problem for me.  People (strk mostly for my patches)
> have responded quickly and committed them.   So while I think
> osgeo-hosted git is better, I don't think it matters that much.

Thanks for your thoughts, and sorry for confusing you with some other
packager (maybe it was debian packagers). I think it would be nice
to have a PACKAGERS file in the repo with reference of who packages
PostGIS for which system, very useful reference, it'd be (although I
guess it'd be easy for it to end up out-of-sync).

--strk;