[Biopython-dev] Moving from CVS to git

[Peter]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Hilmar Lapp<hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Peter wrote:
>
>> My impression from talking to OBF guys is if we really want to we
>> can do this, but it require us (Biopython) to take care of installing
>> and running git on an OBF machine.
>
> That's how I would put it too. Moreover, if you as people who want this and
> know more about it already than anyone else among root-l can't be bothered
> to take the initiative to spearhead this on OBF servers, the argument that
> OBF "sysadmins" (which in essence is all of us who know how to do this)
> should do the work is a lot less strong than it might have to be. I.e., if
> you don't feel this would be time well invested for you, it is probably even
> less well invested for other OBFers.

Sure. Right now I don't think anyone at Biopython knows exactly
what would be involved in running a gitserver, and it would take
some investment of time to get to that point.

In the long term I think running git on an OBF machine would be a
good idea, but I don't personally want to spend time learning how to
do that right now. By using github, we don't have to invest a lot of
upfront effort in configuring a git server right away.

I think it makes sense to just move Biopython to github in the short term,
in the medium term we can (expertise permitting) get a git mirror running
on an OBF machine, and then other tools like the git equivalent of
ViewCVS (and if need be then abandon github - we won't be locked
into anything permanent).

Peter