[sr-dev] Slightly wacky suggestion...

[Peter Dunkley]

The advantages of concentration are lower costs and richer feature set.  I
am sure the time of the Kamailio developers is better spent on Kamailio
than running a tracker, repo, and so on that still won't be as good as the
concentrated one.

If I was setting up an open-source project today I certainly wouldn't run
the repo, tracker, etc myself - it just wouldn't make sense.  Even if
GitHub became evil in the future I could move.

I think it makes sense for any project to review these kind of logistics
from time to time as we are in a rapidly changing world, and given that
there was some discussion about code re-structuring before the next major
release a few months back, now would seem a logical time to give it some
thought.

I am quite happy with the status-quo if no-one wants to change but do think
this merits some consideration to make sure we aren't missing out on
something that could help us.

Regards,

Peter


On 29 August 2013 09:41, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net> wrote:

>
> 29 aug 2013 kl. 18:29 skrev Peter Dunkley <peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net
> >:
>
>
>
>    - The GitHub concept of forking would make individual developers
>    branches easier to manage.
>    - The GitHub concept of forking and push-requests would make it easier
>    for people who are not core developers to submit patches and for the core
>    developers to review them and apply them.
>    - People have been complaining about flyspray for a while and the
>    GitHub tracker is nicely integrated into the repository making it easy to
>    relate issues to code and patches.
>    - The GitHub web-UI means that the code is easier to browse, inspect,
>    view history (and relate changes to issues) than the "default" Git one that
>    is in use at the moment.
>    - There would be no need for anyone to spend time or money
>    maintaining/patching/fixing the SIP Router Git repo and flyspray.
>    - Someone else is handling backups and failure recovery.
>    - The use of markdown means that documentation and code can be
>    presented together in a nice way with GitHub.
>
>
> I am sure there are more too (which is why so many projects are on there
> now).
>
> Apart from this, there's a massive concentration of code and projects on a
> single site. Sourceforge now is rumoured to send malware with downloads,
> what can happen to github in the future? Is this concentration a Good Thing
> (TM) ?
>
> The Internet is distributed.
> /O
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On 29 August 2013 08:49, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> What do you see to be GitHub's virtues for this project?
>>
>>
>> Peter Dunkley <peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> There was some talk about restructuring the Kamailio code (for example,
>>> putting the core into an "src/" or "core/" directory and having an
>>> "include/" directory).
>>>
>>> Would there be any mileage in considering a move to GitHub for the
>>> repository at the same time?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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