[Geany-devel] Git switch (for real)

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 06.10.2011 23:01, schrieb Enrico Tröger:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:43:42 -0700, Matthew wrote:
> 
>> On 11-10-05 04:23 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>>> Le 03/10/2011 23:02, Enrico Tröger a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> While I usually plead for free software I'd also vote for Github in
>>>> this regard. In the last weeks I started to use it for smaller
>>>> personal stuff just to get it hosted somewhere, easily. And it
>>>> worked. Github is just damn easy, fast and intuitive. While I have
>>>> not much experience with Gitorious, it feels more like the
>>>> opposite. Though this is just my personal opinion.
>>>
>>> Well then, let's try GitHub.  I also prefer FOSS everywhere, but
>>> GitHub
>>
>> We should make a completely separate GitHub account called "geany",
>> then convert it into an "Organization"[1], which allows all kinds of
>> more neat features for a project like Geany (as opposed to having it
>> as a "Personal" account).  See an example FOSS project account here[2].
>>
>> I will volunteer to handle setting up an "Organization" account and
>> with the initial setup for service hooks and stuff.
> 
> Yeehaw.
> Er, I think this is a good idea.
> 
> Then we could also migrate the "talks" and "newsletter" repositories
> from git.geany.org to Github into the Geany "organisation" since these
> two repositories are no read-only mirror repositories and so better fit
> together with the rest of the project's code at one place.

+1

> And we could integrate the geany-plugins' repository there.

I'm currently thinking of an approach how to do the flow with git as the
general workflow differs a bit from Geany itself. Will come up with a
workflow proposal after 0.21 release but moving to github also in
general is a good idea.

Cheers,
Frank