Git Migration: where to host the master repository

[John Ralls]

On Aug 12, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, 11. August 2012, 14:36:18 schrieb Derek Atkins:
>> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
>>> On 11-08-12 12:48, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
>>>> Hoi,
>>>> 
>>>> Am 11.08.2012 12:17, schrieb Geert Janssens:
>>>>> I have created a wiki page to track the progress of our git
>>>>> migration.
>>>>> It currently lists the things I know that still have to be done.
>>>>> Please
>>>>> add to it if you know more or have fixed some items:
>>>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Github_Migration
>>>>> 
>>>>> Geert
>>>> 
>>>> Linked by http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git. ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Frank
>>> 
>>> Thanks :)
>> 
>> Any chance we could rename this "Git Migration" instead of "Github
>> Migration"?  I don't think we will ever full migrate fully to github.  I
>> just think it's a bad idea to let go of master.
> 
> Actually this point is one where IMHO there is not a consensus about it. In my 
> opinion, we can very well migrate the master repository to github (or any 
> other git repo provider). I don't consider the risk of code corruption any 
> larger on a git repository other than one on gnucash.org, as git's checksum 
> prevents unnoticed code changes by design anyway. (That's different in SVN, 
> though, where the integrity of the server repository is much more vital than 
> for git.) 
> 
> I remember you have always voiced very clearly you prefer to host the master 
> repository on a server that's controlled by one of the gnucash team. But 
> actually I think differently about this point and would prefer to host the 
> master repository somewhere that requires the least effort for us. IMHO that 
> does not have to be a server under our control.
> 

I actually agree with Christian here, simply because while I appreciate Derek's efforts to maintain access, large hosting operations in large data centers like Github, Sourceforge, or even Gnome have better uptime than Derek's house.

Regards,
John Ralls