[OpenSIPS-Users] [RFC] migration to GIT

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

Hi,

On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Trying to summaries the status.
> 
> It is doable to move NEWS, Donations, file downloads and forums on opensips.org -> this will make GITHUB is an alternative to SF, hosting code repo and tracker.
> 
> So, after all everything reduces to GH versus SF, or what we have to gain from GH and what to loose from SF. IMO, GH is more friendly on GIT usage, but with SF we will loose "history" as bugs, contributors accounts, and a more complex project platform.
> 

IMHO it's more related to the ecosystem. Because GH makes it easy to contribute people seem to do it more often, the barrier for newcomers to contribute code is lowered, the way I see it.

> So, maybe a stupid question : the "pull request" is something specific to GIT (can be done on any GIT repo) or something specific to GITHUB only ?
> 

AFAIK, SF doesn't have a mechanism for dealing with contributions which is as powerful as GH pull requests. With pull requests basically a contributor (or even yourself if you want a peer review!) will host the code in a fork and anyone can make inline comments on the diff. Then the contributor can overwrite those commits (in his fork) until everything looks nice. Then, a committer can merge the patch in, but the authorship is preserved so the patch author gets a nice attribution in the form of being the commit author.

Those are my 2 cents,

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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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