[Biojava-dev] [Biojava-l] should biojava svn be moved to github ?

[Michael Heuer]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -0
>>
>> I use github for quite a few personal things and mercurial via Google
>> Code on a different project and while I think there are some benefits
>> to the distributed model I don't understand how it would work from the
>> point of view of a release manager.  Does anyone have any pointers to
>> documentation on how to manage and cut a release from a distributed
>> repository?
>>
>> With the current svn mirror on github, developers can already fork and
>> create pull requests, they just need to be applied back to the svn
>> repository.  Is there any advantage to moving the repository to
>> github?  Are there any people who will start contributing because the
>> repository is on github that are unwilling to do so with the current
>> model (send patches to the mailing list or issue tracker)?
>>
>> My current client just started a new project on Google Code and we had
>> a similar conversation:  subversion on Google Code vs. git/mercurial
>> on Google Code vs. git at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read
>> only git mirror at github vs. subversion on Google Code + read/write
>> git mirror at github.  In the end we went with subversion on Google
>> Code with possibility of git mirror later because we understand how
>> the Maven release process works with subversion and we liked the issue
>> tracker at Google Code a lot better than the one at github.
>>
>>    michael
>
> I don't know if it would help, but GitHub can mimic SVN from a git
> repository:
>
> https://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support
> https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-support

Thanks, Peter, think my head just exploded.  :)

   michael