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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/2014 9:51 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> Git was designed to avoid the bitkeeper disaster and it does. It's not
> tied to or stuck to any host at all. You can change the host instantly
> by doing git remote remove origin, git remote add origin newurl, git
> push newurl, you can have multiple remotes too! I have a script to
> push to 3 different remote hosts at the same time when I push my
> product to a storage server.
> 
> 
> As for issue importing there's already scripts to do it.
> In fact, I just let the script run and important to a test repo a
> little bit: https://github.com/marekr/kicad-test-issues/issues
> 
> The only downside is the github api doesn't have a way to create
> issues under original users but there's obvious reasons why. (Since
> issues are not a git thing but rather github)
> 
> 
>> I'm not sure we have the manpower or technical
> expertise to host our own git repo.
> 
> I could certainly volunteer because it's one of the things I do
> already, I maintain a 50 user gitlab instance at my company (before
> that was Trac+Git&SVN) and
> another one for me and few developers on side personal projects. But
> long term is sketchy :/
> 

This is one of my main concerns.  Your here just long enough to make the
transition and then you fall off the radar and the project is left to
try to fill the void.  I would be more comfortable if I knew you were in
it for the long haul.