[PD-dev] Github being bought by MS

[Chris McCormick]

Hi Dan,

On 05/06/18 22:05, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> I also agree on not jumping ship on a whim. It would be better to 
> leverage one of the university connections and find a stable, more long 
> term location. Its git, after all, so it's easy to just push to a new 
> location.
 >
 > I also set up a Gitlab some of us are using internally at ZKM and it's
 > pretty useful so far. As always, someone needs to maintain and backup
 > the server and it would be great if a university IT department could
 > handle that. :)

If I recall correctly Jonathan Wilkes previously offered the use of the 
GitLab instance where he is hosting Purrr Data.

> It becomes harder to carry the unfinished work, like open PRs 
> with us, so that would need to be managed/mirrored for a while.
It's possible to fetch all GitHub PRs to your local:

https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247

Cheers,

Chris.

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