I think something that might be worth noting is that we should pick a host that has support http:// fetching, and even better, smart http://.
Good point
- How many people contribute to one, and what hosting service do they
use and what is the experience, is performance consistent and better than Sourceforge SVN, all around the world?
In Singapore and Malaysia, gitorious.org and github.com have been extremely stable and fast, unlike sourceforge.net.
- And does anyone have experience using any other DVCS and hosting
service that would make them recommend it, or recommend against it?
I've used bzr before, But I would recommend against it, as bzr still seems to have the occasional repository format migration which, if things go wrong, can cause your repositories to suddenly become unmergeable. Also, it's one branch per repository, which leads to as many copies of the project as you have branches (i.e. not so cheap branching).
- should the bug tracker be moved? Can it be done without losing
anything?
I'm against any bug tracker that lacks either a read/writeable web interface or a read/writeable e-mail interface. (I like launchpad.net's bug tracker, but that's just me.)
There are rather a lot of options listed here: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting Has anyone used any?
The important things we need to know about a hosting service are:
- likely stability, some have gone offline during the GFC, but this is
hard to judge
- performance for a good range of users in a good range of locations
- reliability, low downtime
- features, hosting clones, bug tracking ?????
My answer is that I only run Git locally, so I cannot add any information.
Who can? I'm happy to collate the replies.
So far, Jiri I take it you are happy with Gitorious, it has the features, but some don't like its style, does anyone have performance problems with it? Whats its reliability like?
For Github, some really don't like its style :-)
I don't really care about whichever hosting service we use, as long as it has: * A good and stable internet connection to various places around the world (I particularly care about Malaysia and Singapore). * A fairly usable web interface that supports showing logs, browsing the tree, showing diffs for commits. (github.com and gitorious.org satisfy me in this aspect). * git:// read-only access, git+ssh:// push access, http:// read-only access. http:// push access would be a plus, though.
P.S. What's GFC?
Oops sorry, non-computer acronym, global financial crisis
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