[Qgis-developer] github vs hub.qgis.org/projects/.../repository

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Devs,

doing some plugins, and working both with plugins from
hub.qgis.org/projects/.../repository (my own) and plugins living at
github (wktplugin from Allesandro), it appears to me that github seems
to work more transparant for me...

Eg at github after a couple of days you could see that people forked
Allesandro's plugin and you could even see what they were doing with it
(by going to the forkers github repo). I could even contact those people
to ask to do a pull request etc etc.

I think, this cannot be done at our own hub.qgis.org-repo?
Or am I missing something in this?

I think it is really helpfull to see what other people are adding/doing
with a plugin. And it hopefully also minimizes the private
branching/forking of plugins.

I read something about the old jquery plugins site, which broke down,
and now there is a message at
http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/
that says: "we’ve started converting our plans into action, building out
an infrastructure that’s backed by GitHub".

Isn't that an ideal situation for QGIS plugin future to?

I am NOT wanting to throw away the infrastructure we have now! It's just
that I like the jquery plugin idea...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

ps as a temporary solution I think to fork (is forking actually adding a
new remote?) my repo's to github too...

ps2 (sorry for too much words on the list from my side.... I will go in
stealth mode .... now)