Hi all, On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 12:00 +0100, Reza Lotun wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_@lvh.cc> wrote: Although I've hated git for a long while (and I still don't like it very much), I firmly believe Github is the right thing for Twisted. My incredibly unscientific poll amongst people who like Twisted but aren't devs is that they all love or at least like Github, and a surprising number has a distaste for Launchpad (unfamiliarity with Bazaar, perceived developer-unfriendly UI, slowness).
I vote for GitHub too. Git's a pain but powerful (no need for combinator), and GitHub has a pretty good API into everything - low level repo innards, to issues/tickets. Also, GitHub's webhook system can easily integrate with buildbot (we used to do it at TweetDeck). Code review is doable by pull requests too. You can even map twistedmatrix.com to a github hosted website, which itself would be a repo. Oh, and the wikis are git repos too.
Given all these tools, I see mappings for all of Twisted's bits and pieces (unless I'm missing something).
I agree, possibly the biggest win with GitHub is the way it encourages fellow users to fork a project and contribute patches via pull requests. Popularity doesn't always equate to quality but in this case (amongst developers) I think it *is* indicative that they've got something right. Pull requests can be used to implement the Twisted review model as they form a good centralised place to review a set of changes. GitHub's issue tracker used to be pretty shoddy but has had a big upgrade recently and is almost good now. Git is powerful, and while it can also be confusing at times StackOverflow almost always has the answer ;-) Also, managing branches in git really is real pleasure compared to the mish-mash of merging branches with SVN and various external scripts. For example, to merge 'somebranch' into master (i.e. trunk) and push it to GitHub (the 'origin' remote), after committing to somebranch, it's just: git checkout master; git merge somebranch; git push origin master Addressing the concern of getting your data out of GitHub, since git is a DVCS, every repository is a complete copy of the entire revision history. Therefore, GitHub cannot lock you in. I suppose the issue tracker might be a different story, but it has an API. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Mobile: +447791750420 www.hybrid-cluster.com - Cloud web hosting platform