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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Github as primary source repository for SourceMage?
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:59:48 -0500

On 09/24/2014 02:56 PM, Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 07:20:52PM -0500, David Kowis 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.
>
> Firstly, apologies for being late to the party, I had some mail server
> troubles the other day and way too much stuff going on IRL to attend to
> it.
>
> Anyway, I don't think that moving SMGL to github is in and of itself a
> bad idea. Saving $s isn't a bad thing, neither is just being able to use
> stuff without having to spend time on maintaining it, nor is using
> something that people are familiar with a bad idea.
>
> I do have to agree with Thomas though, do we have to do this now? The
> current setup is functional, so at least lets try and get back on track
> and see how to proceed afterwards. That being said I do think we should
> organize some kind of fund raiser to lessen Jeremy's burden, we've gone
> way too long without. David, is that maybe something you'd like to
> organize?

I think I have too many things going on right now to handle that (job,
family life is super busy.)

>
> As for the whole vendor lock-in thing and the non-OSS thing, I don't see
> either being much of a problem. As David said, it's still just git we'll
> have our own mirrors of the repo, issue and wiki data can be backed up.
> We can leave whenever we need or want to. The reason why I don't see the
> non-OSS thing being an issue is that Github will not be part of our
> "product" it's just a tool we use, so is the network switch that I use,
> as long as it allows us to do what we need to do I don't see much of a
> problem, and as soon as it doesn't? Why, we just walk.
>
> Regards, Remko
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