<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Christopher Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radix@twistedmatrix.com" target="_blank">radix@twistedmatrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On March 18, 2014 at 6:38:42 PM, Jonas Brunsgaard (<a href="mailto:jonas.brunsgaard@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonas.brunsgaard@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</div> </div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica,Arial;word-spacing:0px">
<span><div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I think that it is a shame that Twisted is not on <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span>(Yep <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span>, not just git)<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If we make a comparison between <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>SVN</span></span> and Git, I think it is obvious that Git is the superior <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>VCS</span></span>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I think <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span> - as a platform - creates a certain "feeling" of openness, transparency, accessibility and<span> </span><span>recognisability</span>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All things, that make new users of twisted feel better about the project.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example I think that most developers know how to submit <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>PR's</span></span> via <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span>, where I (as an example) don`t know how to submit a patch to Twisted today(of cause I could read up on it, but i already know the other flow). And that could hold back some people from submitting <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>bugfixes</span></span> etc.</div>
</div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p></div><p>I think accepting PRs via Github would be a huge benefit to Twisted.</p><div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica,Arial;word-spacing:0px">
<span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>I feel many <span style="background-color:yellow">developers</span> see Twisted as good and stable, but also a little 'dusty' and old, and I think that a move to <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span> would bring more code <span style="background-color:yellow">submitters</span>, more discussions, more accessibility and more '<span> </span><span>generel</span><span> </span>development' in the project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For that reasons I feels like it may be a good idea to move twisted to <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>Github</span></span>.</div><div><br></div><div>If at some point the core <span style="background-color:yellow"><span>dev</span></span> team decides that such a move should happen, I would love to help with the movement of <span style="background-color:yellow">issues</span> etc.(all the slave work :)) (and I think others outside the core team would be willing to help out too) </div>
</div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div><p>While I doubt Twisted would move to Github’s pretty poor issue tracker, there is already some agreement that Twisted should be moved to github inasmuch that PRs should reasonably be integrated into the workflow.</p>
<p>There are already some tickets on the Twisted tracker about a move to Git. I’m sure your help would be greatly appreciated :-)</p><p>Here’s a wiki page where some of the tickets are linked: <a href="https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Infrastructure/SwitchToGit" target="_blank">https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Infrastructure/SwitchToGit</a></p>
</div></blockquote><div>Thank you for the link. </div><div><br></div><div>I just realised that Gmail - for some strange reason - did not remove the coloring after my spellcheck. I am sorry for the inconvenience (I feel dumb!)</div>
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<div><div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial">-- <br>Christopher Armstrong<br><a href="http://twitter.com/radix" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/radix</a></div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial"><a href="http://wordeology.com/" target="_blank">http://wordeology.com/</a></div>
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