[PD-dev] moving to git?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 07/31/2015 03:15 PM, Jamie Bullock wrote:
>
> On 31 July 2015 at 19:40:32, IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig at iem.at 
> <mailto:zmoelnig at iem.at>) wrote:
>
>> On 07/31/2015 04:36 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>> > On 30/07/15 17:05, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> >> in any case, i thought that it might be better to really allow the 
>> devs
>> >> themselves to pick *any* hoster they prefer, be it your own gitlab
>> >> instance, OSUOSL, github, or even sf.
>> >
>> > The good thing about this is we don't even need to "allow" anybody 
>> to do
>> > anything. As Roman showed, anybody can take the initiative and start
>> > maintaining the externals they like at this very moment.
>>
>> well, everybody was always free to do that.
>> so i probably shouldn't have used "allow".
>>
>> what i'm really interested in (and which is why i put work into it), is
>> a coordinated transition that would allow [sic!] anybody who is
>> interested in taking part in the development process (or just interested
>> in getting the latest and greatest sources of a given external) to find
>> what they are looking for.
>>
>> traditionally this was rather easy: Pd had a single repository where
>> virtually all (FLOSS) libraries were aggragated. most were actively
>> developed in that SVN (a few were regularily imported from whatever
>> their upstream used).
>> so if you were interested in "what's going on in Pd land", then you
>> would just need to check out that repository.
>>
>> when switching away from sf/svn we might lose this feature.
>> did you know that i forked iemnet onto github a while ago?
>> having s-abstractions hosted on gitlab.mccormick.com is nice, but how
>> will anybody ever stumble (serendipitously) upon that?
>
> How about: authors / maintainers can host their externals wherever 
> they like, but we maintain a “meta” repository on GitHub that includes 
> all the various external [sic] repositories as git submodules…?
>

And why do you prefer Github to Sourceforge?  What's different enough in 
their business model that there is no inherent conflict between serving 
the free software
community on the one hand and monetizing their users/userdata on the other?

-Jonathan
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