[IPython-dev] Move of IPython development to GitHub completed

[Brian Granger]

Fernando,

Wow!

> as per our recent discussions and scheduled plans, the LP repos have
> all now been moved over to GitHub.  I've created this repo:
>
> http://github.com/ipython/ipython

Fantastic!  Thanks so much for doing this.  I definitely owe you a
dinner/beer/coffee.

> For now I only have Brian and me added as 'collaborators', simply
> because I don't have the Github login from anyone else on
> ~ipython-dev.  So those of you on the ~ipython-dev Launchpad team
>
> https://launchpad.net/~ipython-dev/+members
>
> who would like to continue managing the main repo, please just contact
> me with your GitHub id.  Please note that since GitHub allows trivial
> collaboration between anyone on the site, without needing to create
> special 'teams', we won't be making a special '-contrib' repo like we
> had on Launchpad.  That team and associated repos were simply to work
> around Launchpad's limitations, on github we don't need it.
>
> I have migrated all 113 open bugs from Launchpad to GitHub, including
> links to their parent on LP for reference, as well as their full
> commit history:
>
> http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues
>
> Note that on LP we had 210 listed 'open', but that included many with
> 'fix committed', which I didn't migrate since once 0.10.1 and 0.11 are
> out they'll automatically close, and I didn't want to populate our
> GitHub repo with a ton of effectively dead bugs from day 1.
>
> But I was very careful not to lose any important information from old
> bug reports, the only problem may be some ugly formatting because
> GitHub uses the markdown syntax and thus renders funny some of the old
> comments.
>
> I'm sure we'll have to do a bit of adjustment to the new setup, but by
> and large I'm convinced it will make everyone's life easier in the
> long run.
>
> Please let us know of any problems you may encounter.

Finally, I can sleep at night...

Cheers,

Brian

> Cheers,
>
> f
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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
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Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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