On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 07/17/2012 08:41 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
It would appear from reading this page that the
only alternative to
Gerrit that has a serious following is GitHub. Is that the case?
We definitely need a GitHub *strategy*. GitHub draws together tons of
open source contributors. So we ought to address:
* pull requests. People *will* clone our projects onto GitHub and end
up submitting pull requests there; we have to find or make tools to sync
those, or at least get notified about them and make it easy to pull them
into whatever we use. [0] [1]
* discoverability. Having a presence on GitHub gets us publicity to a
lot of potential contributors.
* reputation. People on GitHub want credit, in their system, for their
commits. It'd help us to give them that somehow.
I'm sure the approach doesn't scale the best but OpenStreetMap has a
mirror
of it's code on github, while the official repository is self-hosted within
OSM.
http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/shortlog
People can and do regularly submit pull requests from Github and they get
merged in.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
I thought we used to have a mirror of MediaWiki on github but maybe that
was when we were using SVN. There's also the Wikimedia mobile stuff on
github and curious how that's working, in terms of incorporating volunteer
contributions.
Cheers,
Katie
[snip]
(Thanks to Chad and RobLa for talking through much of this with me.)
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