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[Paul Voccio <paul.voccio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay,

I think that discussion will be one of the more popular talks at the
summit. Looking forward to the discussion. I know a lot of devs will be
happy to see this. 

pvo

On 4/8/11 4:21 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>All,
>
>In an effort to speed up our code development processes, reduce the
>friction amongst existing contributors and reduce barriers to entry
>for new contributors familiar with the popular git DVCS, we (the
>OpenStack@Rackspace team) have been studying a transition of our code
>hosting from Launchpad to GitHub. We understand others would be
>proposing the same at the design summit, but we figured it would be
>good to get the discussion started earlier.
>
>GitHub has a number of major strengths when it comes to managing source
>code:
>- Contributors seem to be more familiar with, and comfortable using, git
>- The code review process on GitHub is easier to use for reviewers
>  who use the website interface and allows for fine-grained comment
>  control per line in diffs
>
>As good as the GitHub review system is, there are some deficiencies,
>such as the lack of ability to mark a request as definitively
>approved. We hope to work with the GitHub team to investigate how this
>can be rectified.
>
>Of course, there is much more to delivering a professionally released
>open source software package than just the code hosting platform. This
>is the primary interface for code contributors who are actively
>developing, but the project also needs to have processes in place for
>handling bug reports, managing distribution, packaging, translations,
>and releasing the code in an efficient manner.
>
>There are a number of things that Launchpad provides OpenStack
>projects that GitHub does not have the ability to do. Examples of
>these things include translation services, project management
>abilities, package archives for projects, and release-management
>functionality.
>
>Therefore, at this time, we are only proposing moving the code hosting
>functionality to GitHub, and not radically changing any other parts of
>the development and release process.
>
>Soren, Monty, and Thierry, who are the developers responsible for
>keeping our release management and development infrastructure in good
>shape, have identified the pieces of our existing infrastructure that
>they will have to modify. Some of these changes are small, some
>require a bit more work. They are all committed to making these
>changes and to moving us along in the process of transitioning code
>hosting over to GitHub.
>
>There will be a design summit session about this transition where the
>process will be discussed in more detail, as well as the possibility
>to migrate other parts of our infrastructure.
>
>Comments and discussion welcome.
>
>Cheers,
>-jay
>
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