[Bioperl-l] BioPerl Migration to Git/GitHub

[Chris Fields]

On May 6, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:

> ...
>> 5) Encouraging outside contributors
>> 
>> Do we want to adopt a policy similar to Moose?
>> 
>> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual/Contributing.pod
>> 
> 
> Interesting and educational document. Let's learn as much a we can from it.
> 
> This is easy with github and forks.
>> 
> 
> The more the merrier.
> 
> BTW, I can see Moose using Shipit,
> http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/ShipIt-0.55/
> that might be worth using in BioPerl.

I agree.  Have thought about that, primarily for easier releases down the road.

>> 6) SVN Read/Write to GitHub
>> 
>> It was recently announced that one can access a github repo using
>> subversion as read-only, and just yesterday experimental write to github is
>> allowed:
>> 
>> http://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support
>> 
>> I can see allowing read-only svn, but write support is still experimental.
>> Do we want to allow that?
>> 
> 
> Why not is someone insists on using it. Once people get over the initial
> problems of moving to a different mind set in git, very few will want to use
> svn. There might be situtations when git does not work, however, so lets
> allow for svn usage.

Nothing really stopping it, unless we add something to a pre-commit hook that prevents it somehow.

I'm thinking a move in the next 5 days, maybe starting Monday?  I'll try getting a post out on it.

chris