Hi there,
from a personal perspective, as a github users (read biased opinion), I've
been refrained from contributing and publishing diffs because:
- the process of patch approval was not clear,
- communication around a patch is made difficult by mail (which are already
follinwg throughout the days)
- current open issues are not listed and cannot be discussed by the
community (to propose patch for instance)
I have the feeling that a move to github would make lots of things clear
for global collaboration. Although, the fact that the project is hosted at
fedora is a good quality stamp/branding :)
my two cents.
Ronald
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Shawn Wells <shawn(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 4/8/14, 10:16 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what happened with this in the end?
>
> I just noticed a few more suggestions that Github-style pull requests
> would be really useful.
>
There were valid opinions expressed for both staying on FedoraHosted and
migrating to GitHub. So, effectively, a stalemate.
The SSG community has grown amazingly -- both in contributors and usage --
and because of this success Red Hat is preparing to ship SSG in future
versions of RHEL [1]. This exacerbates the need for a manageable ticketing
system with easy patch submission as very shortly every RHEL installation
will have a copy of SSG. FedoraHosted simply wasn't designed to include the
same tooling and developer ecosystem as afforded on GitHub (and that's NOT
a ding against it's designers!).
The community is a coalition of the willing. Our shared purpose drives the
community, and I strongly feel the need to build out tools that will allow
us to scale. I'm concerned -- likely overly so -- at how to prepare for a
wave of interest once we begin shipping in RHEL.
With that said, who am I to *mandate* the migration to GitHub? Admittedly
part of me wants to just go ahead and do it, however that could come at
making a non-trivial amount of people (esp. committers, who would be
effected by the change) feel alienated/ignored. Certainly we can't make
everyone happy all the time, though.
Thoughts would be *most* welcome.
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038655
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