[sr-dev] Slightly wacky suggestion...

[Richard Brady]

+1 for GitHub 

On 29 Aug 2013, at 17:58, Peter Dunkley <peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:

> 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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