Re: [tei-council] ODD question

Am 21.07.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Raffaele Viglianti:

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:

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All of this seems to suggest to me that we really should be considering migrating to an install of Allura on tei-c.org. Everything Hugh and others find worrying about SourceForge's current state will eventually come to pass with GitHub too; site like this inevitably rise and fall over time.

This is not a valid reason to dismiss GitHub. It's true for everything, including the TEI and its servers.

That's indeed true. We should also not underestimate the effort that we would need to put into maintaining allura, gitlab or any of the other platforms. An effort that would be better spent at different areas. So, going with something that is available for free, and having a sensible way to move forward in case of desaster would be great. Given the distributed nature of git, people could continue working/contributing while the servers are down and while the project tries to find new hosting options.

GitHub is incredibly usable and useful. It makes it simple to discuss tickets in the context of the code (unlike a mailing list), it's well integrated with other useful systems around the web, and some of us already use it daily and have other projects on it.

Fair point. Really, I think the ease of use and the tight integration of working with code and ticketing saves much time we cold well use for other things.

I frankly don't understand this suspicion of GitHub that seems solely based on its popularity. We can only benefit from moving TEI development there.

And, we could benefit from popularity. I don't know if github is really the place where the smart kids are hanging out, but I am pretty confident that sf has ceased to be in that position.