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On Wednesday 08 February 2012 09:52:25 fbissey@××××××××××××.nz wrote: |
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> Quoting Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@g.o>: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > We are contemplating the idea of switching the official science overlay |
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> > to an external repository such as github. Here are some of the |
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> > advantages we would like to |
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> > get: |
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> > 1. easier to contribute |
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> > 2. specific issue tracker |
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> > 3. wiki |
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> Other people have made useful comments already. The only point that I think |
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> is interesting about github is the possibility to clone the overlay and have |
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> pull requests. |
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> Effectively that means people can contribute without ever getting infra |
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> involved and an external contributor can send a pull request even if they |
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> are not a member of the github science team. |
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> Francois |
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Thats right - pull requests are a very nice feature of github. For example, if |
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I am not content with what the pull request contains, I can write that and |
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make a suggestion how to do it better. The user can now add more commits and |
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adapt to my suggestions (see for example [1]). That is IMO a very good example |
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why github is better than bugzilla+bare git repo+wiki - everything is in one |
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place and you can discuss it together. It makes things very active, maybe a |
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move to github could also attract more contributors. |
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[1] https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/pull/103 |
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Cheers, |
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Christopher |