On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 07:18 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:

As I recall, one of the claimed advantages of using github over fedorahosted is the ease with which people can submit code - the idea being that new contributors are more likely to have a github account than a FAS account.

I'm curious whether anyone has observed an uptick in external contributions since the switch over to github, does anyone have any numbers or opinions on that?

Switching to github has had quite some consequences as far as I have seen: - We started to do code review (which is nice and sometime annoying, because you have to wait for someone to review your changes) - We started using the git flow approach, which means that are repositories have an exploding number of branches (either still opened, old but not removed or in their history) - From what I saw, I think more people contribute to the projects in general but except for some code review, I still see mostly the same people as before - We (the team) have a pretty good place to see what's going on in the different projects, that's something I find nice

So to answer your question, I cannot say I have seen many new comers, but more contributions from people within the team. Others might have a different experience though :) (Suddenly I remember rube which had a number of contributors outside of the standard team as well as fedmsg, but that one was already on github)

Pierre