From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F755431FBF for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 03:15:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9MgSGTpCYKKf for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 03:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.m0g.net (vilya.m0g.net [88.191.157.47]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D42431FAE for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 03:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.m0g.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A073E33B7 for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 12:13:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at vilya.m0g.net Received: from mail.m0g.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sd-38500.dedibox.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KPc80vcZBPEc for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 12:13:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.m0g.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 728B73E3695; Thu, 8 May 2014 12:13:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:13:25 +0200 From: Guyzmo To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Github? Message-ID: <20140508101325.GC23124@vilya.m0g.net> References: <87iopgkaiz.fsf@nikula.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1-rc1 (2013-10-16) X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 10:15:49 -0000 Hi, On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 09:40:45AM +0100, Eric wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2014 09:13:56 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > > On Thu, 08 May 2014, Wael Nasreddine wrote: [...] > >> Any thoughts on moving to Github? > > http://mid.gmane.org/87wqea7c37.fsf@nikula.org > Exactly! it feels like there's an echo in the room ;-) > >> I took the liberty of making the first move by > >> creating https://github.com/notmuch and splitting the contrib/ and binding/ > >> into their own repository (conserving all their history). > > I am concerned people will mistake that for the official notmuch > > repository. > Me too! I am just a (happy) user here, but I do know that the sort > of confusion that might arise can work against acceptance of a piece > of software. I think that doing this without waiting for feedback, > especially from the people who do most of the work on notmuch, is > somewhat high-handed. well, because of git's fundamental feature to be distributed, I see no reason why notmuch couldn't have a *mirror* on github, as well as on gitorious or bitbucket. As long as the description says explicitly: *mirror of the http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch repository* and that the README.md starts by giving where the official repo is, and explains how to submit patches. And *always* refuse to merge in pull requests. A good thing would be to have it automatically kept in sync with the original repository, and a nice way to do it would be to create a post-receive hook on the principal repository. As a nice side effect of doing this, we'll stop having users complain about "not being on github"... Even though they should understand that this is github that has a design flaw not being able to track forks coming from outside of github, or getting out of github. my 2 cents, -- Guyzmo