[asterisk-dev] DAHDI migration to Git

[Dan Jenkins]

That's great,

I was only trying to get at the fact that you will get more
interaction from other developers if you make it easy for them to
fork, whether that be with GitHub being host or mirror it really
doesn't matter. Anyway, this can only be good for everyone,

Dan

On Dec 6, 2012, at 18:58, Shaun Ruffell <sruffell at digium.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:40:53PM -0600, David M. Lee wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry if I came across as though I was suggesting to
>>> entirely change digium's workflow earlier, that wasn't what I
>>> meant at all.
>>>
>>> When I talked about using GitHub I didn't mean that you would
>>> have to use all of the features like wiki/issues etc, only that
>>> having the code in a public place (and easy to view and use)
>>> would only benefit the projects - git.asterisk.org is not a nice
>>> front end to git, it's the standard web GUI on top of git.
>>
>> Agreed, but simply mirroring to GitHub would be sufficient. Then
>> you wouldn't have to use gitweb.
>
> I'm nearly certain this will be done. If nobody comes forward and
> identifies a problem with the dahdi/linux repository rmeyerriecks
> has set up [1], then it will be mirrored to
> http://github.com/asterisk/dahdi-linux, after which I'll delete my
> github public repo at http://github.com/sruffell/dahdi-linux, and
> then fork the asterisk/dahdi-linux and cherry-pick my WIP back onto
> it. By keeping an asterisk/dahdi-linux mirror there will be a way to
> find those Github users who have forked it / build up the
> connections of interested parties on Github.
>
> So it will be done, it just won't be the canonical repository.
>
> [1] http://git.asterisk.org/gitweb/?p=dahdi/linux.git
>
> Just a note about interfaaces. One thing I like about gitweb's
> interfae over Github's is the ability to see tags and heads in the
> shortlog.  For example, here is the same shortlog from both
> services.
>
> gitweb:
> http://git.asterisk.org/gitweb/?p=team/sruffell/asterisk-working.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-trunk
>
> Github:
> https://github.com/sruffell/asterisk-working/commits/for-trunk
>
>
> On gitweb's interface it's easy to see which commits are sitting on
> top of the current trunk. It's a bit harder to see that with
> Github's.
>
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> Shaun Ruffell
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