[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Github or Gitea (OSGeo Git) or stay on SVN

[Paul Ramsey]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> I think you are overrating the discomfort of having to handle pull
> requests from github (as a mirror vs. being our official) if everything
> isn't there and forgetting that you are forcing people who don't have
> github accounts to create one.
>
>
>
> There are 3 kinds of contributors I think are important
>
>
>
> 1)      End users reporting bugs – many of these don't have github
> accounts so forcing them to create an osgeo instead of github sounds
> better. You can argue creating a github account is easier these days.
>
Yes, I can.


> 2)      Developers who are on github – we take pull requests from them
> whether I do it from github/gogs/svn doesn't matter to me.  The
> conversation if changes need to be made is better on github or gogs.
>
This is almost all of them.

> 3)      Developers/users who don't have a github account or don't like
> committing to github for political reasons.  We lose all these people if
> they are forced to create a github accounts before they can exchange with
> us.
>

Who? Even this guy <https://github.com/strk> has a github account and it's
active.



P.




>
> So I'm still +1 for GIT OSGeo and okay with tickets moving from trac to
> gogs.
>
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> *From:* postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Paul Ramsey
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 08, 2017 7:46 PM
>
> *To:* PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Github or Gitea (OSGeo Git) or
> stay on SVN
>
>
>
> The point isn't features, it's developer density. I don't see any great
> advantage to gogs if we still have PRs and work managing the github mirror.
> Might as well continue on w/ trac/svn, since gogs shares the main drawback;
> forcing folks to get new accounts / logins before they can start engaging.
>
>
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> I'm sure gogs is technically wunderbar, but it's not where the persons are.
>
>
> P.
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>
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
> Nice.
>
> 1) So gogs with the pull and the lazy editing feature (I can edit via the
> web interface which I have done) has everything github has and appeases my
> emotional side too
> 2) appeases my need to be able to know I can access via SQLif I really
> really wanted to which I got from this:
> https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/pulls/9#issuecomment-3040
>
>  :)
>
> 3) I'm okay with trac eventually moving to gogs.  It would be sweet if we
> change the r... to the actual git hash.  That seems like a simple r.. map
> to git hash UPDATE  statement if we have a table that maps svn revision
> numbers to git which I assume we might be able to generate via the mirror.
>
> That's a minor thing for me though.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 6:34 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Github or Gitea (OSGeo Git) or stay
> on SVN
>
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 06:22:35PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> > But OSGEo trac is on postgresql now :) I'm sure if I am given a
> > postgresql backup I can figure out how to get data out of it much
> > easier than using a github api :)
>
> An XSLT recipe ? :P
>
> I'm speaking as the one who made `Trac -> Gogs` tool based on PostgreSQL
> queries.
> See example results: https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/strk/geos-migration-test/
> issues
> Code: http://strk.kbt.io/projects/go/trac2gogs/
>
> --strk;
>
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