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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joel,

Right now, there is already a git mirror you can use, at github.  Have you
seen it?

If all you're talking about is a VCS move, not a Launchpad migration--we
already are on Git *and* bzr.

You can use Git just like you want to, and then turn your branch into an
email patch, and send it in like everyone else does.

I believe Linus still uses patches via email for Linux.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 12/11/14 14:28, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:> On 11/12/2014 9:01 AM, Mark
> Roszko wrote:
> At that
> >  Kicad has been
> > hosted on launchpad for the last 6 years, the amount of accumulated
> > information outside of the source will be significantly more that the
> > last transition.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I don't understand why a VCS move would entail a
> move away from launchpad. In my mind the mailing list, the website, the
> wiki etc. are completely different things.
>
> The project wiki is already a separate entity on confluence to everything
> else.
>
> Also I would gently urge others not to FUD this issue, because moving
> really wouldn't be that big a deal.
>
>
> > I consider hosting as important as the chosen vcs.  Using a hosting site
> > based on non-free software may be risky.  Anyone remember the
> > kernel/bitkeeper fiasco?  I'm not sure we have the manpower or technical
> > expertise to host our own git repo.
>
> I think that's rather overblown. At sigrok.org, we have a VPM hosting
>
> gitlite + cgit repo viewer
> bugzilla
> mediawiki
> mailman
>
> on Debian Stable
>
> ...nothing fancy, but it works and works well! and requires next to no
> work to maintain. Certainly wouldn't take the average linux user more than
> half a day to set all that up.
>
> But like I say, I'm only talking about the VCS. And the reason I'm talking
> about the VCS is that there's a mass exodus from this particular one, which
> won't do the project any favours.
>
> Joel
>
>
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