[Biojava-l] should biojava svn be moved to github ?

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Michael,

About the question how to cut a release from a distributed repository:
I found this article an interesting read:

http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Andreas


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
> -0
>
> I use github for quite a few personal things and mercurial via Google
> Code on a different project and while I think there are some benefits
> to the distributed model I don't understand how it would work from the
> point of view of a release manager.  Does anyone have any pointers to
> documentation on how to manage and cut a release from a distributed
> repository?
>
> With the current svn mirror on github, developers can already fork and
> create pull requests, they just need to be applied back to the svn
> repository.  Is there any advantage to moving the repository to
> github?  Are there any people who will start contributing because the
> repository is on github that are unwilling to do so with the current
> model (send patches to the mailing list or issue tracker)?
>
> My current client just started a new project on Google Code and we had
> a similar conversation:  subversion on Google Code vs. git/mercurial
> on Google Code vs. git at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read
> only git mirror at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read/write
> git mirror at github.  In the end we went with subversion on Google
> Code with possibility of git mirror later because we understand how
> the Maven release process works with subversion and we liked the issue
> tracker at Google Code a lot better than the one at github.
>
>    michael
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:14 PM,  <daniel.quest at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Github ==awesome.
>> Go for it and let the social coding begin
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Hannes Brandstätter-Müller<biojava at hannes.oib.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering how people feel about migrating the BioJava  svn
>>>> repository and starting to use github for the trunk development?
>>>> (Currently github is only a read-only copy of our developer svn).
>>>>
>>>> Any opinions?
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> I'm in favor - git pull requests make submitting patches so much easier, IMHO.
>>>
>>> Hannes
>
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