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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:20 PM, David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:

Given a recent revival of interest in SourceMage, I brought up on IRC
that we could move our primary repositories, wiki, and issue tracking to
Github.

Considering that our website is the issue tracker + wiki, do you propose that we get rid of our website? If so, I feel that's a step in the wrong direction.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:

Apert from my instinctive reaction that tends to prefer self-hosting
just for the heck of it and the tendency to run into the other
direction when everyone is heading towards X (X being github nowadays),
I have to wonder ... WHY NOW? Shouldn't we get our code together and
produce a new stable release without rearranging our infrastructure?

I even don't really get what we had from the last website move. It's
not that much happened with the new one and it never really got into
shape. Finding information is a nightmare ... with bits of various wiki
generations popping up, and, well ... we all know what happens with
project management (issue tracker etc.) infrastructure if there is
nobody bothering to use it.

Anyhow: Is there a technical reason why we have to consider a move
_now_? Could we please discuss such stuff after having something like a
release?

+1

If there is no pressing need, let's just focus on getting Source Mage back on track before we worry about (IMO) minor administrative changes. With the recent revival of interest, we should focus our efforts on improving Source Mage so it's something that people don't lose interest in again. Moving to a new github server and such isn't going to do that.