[Sugar-devel] [Systems] Moving pootle to github

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 9 June 2013 01:38, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On 06/07/2013 09:10 AM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> > No, just glucose. You can see the exact list of modules on
> > https://github.com/sugarlabs/
>
> By the way, what is "sugarlabs", a shared account?
>
>
It's an organization

https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations


> Wouldn't this subvert GitHub's philosophy that all forks are created
> equal, by creating one that looks more official than the others?
>

In my experience the large majority of github repository has an official
repo, very visibly linked from the project official website. For example

http://nodejs.org/

People fork the official repo and send patches through pull requests.

Which is exactly what we are doing.


> If it seems that this approach wouldn't be feasible for a project with
> many collaborators, check out http://git.kernel.org . Most of the repos
> under kernel/git/ are clones of the kernel tree with various patches
> applied. The most "official" tree that I can think of is
> kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git, the one maintained by Linus. There are of
> course many other public forks of the Linux kernel hosted on other sites.
>

I can't think of a single github repository that follows the kernel
development model. I'm sure there but I'm also pretty sure it's not the
normal development model for github repositories.


> I'm making the assumption that switching to GitHub was motivated in part
> by the desire to adopt the bazaar development style. If it's not the
> case, then GitHub may not be a very good fit for a central repository
> shared by multiple committers.
>

If with bazaar development model you mean kernel like, I don't think that
was one of the reasons. But as I said I don't think github pushes that
model either. It's pretty similar to gitorious really, just a better
implementation of it :)

In general I don't think kernel development practices are a good model for
our community, as proved by the attempt to push their patch review
practices and badly failing. We are a very different kind of communities.
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