[Tilecache] Shifting Dev to OSGeo

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Tue Jan 12 16:55:11 EST 2010


Yo,

So for a while, TileCache has been hosted at MetaCarta; while that's been
the case, I've been lazy insofar as I have not actually managed it well
or set up a trac/ticket tracker.

I see a couple possibilities for fixing this:
 * Migrate to some other public hosting of SVN (Google code or the like)
 * Migrate to some other public hosting of not-SVN (github or the like)
 * Migrate to OSGeo infrastructure

The latter requires cursory approval of the OSGeo SAC, but I'm not concerned
about that, particularly. 

I'm in favor of moving to OSGeo; TileCache makes a good project alongside many
of the OSGeo software projects (MapServer, GeoServer, PostGIS, OpenLayers,
etc.) However, I realize the popularity of distributed VCS, and if we're
going to make a shift, I understand the desire to do so once :)

Does Github's ticket tracking let people do what they want for ticket
tracking, or would trac be more useful?

I have no particularly strong incentive for SVN, just what I'm familiar
with; if others prefer github, especially given the current tendancy for
people to hack their own TC stuff together, I'm happy to support that 
instead.

(I'm attempting to migrate some of the services off an overloaded machine
at MC, hence the reason for transition, and this affords the oppourtunity
to evaluate what TileCache actually needs now that we've had the 
project around for a couple years, and it's relatively stable.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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