<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear project managers,<br><br></div>Recently, there have been a number of requests to support git an an alternative to subversion and, in particular, to allow projects to be hosted and managed on github. As such, I have established a github organization for COIN-OR<br>
<br><a href="https://github.com/coin-or">https://github.com/coin-or</a><br><br></div>and we are currently hosting a few projects there as a test. We have been discussing this on the TLC and the board and our current thought is that all projects would continue to have a presence on TRAC and would probably have their repos mirrored onto COIN (this is easy with git). We now have the capability of hosting projects with git on the COIN server using TRAC, i.e., you can add a git repo and browse the source just as you can with subversion.<br>
<br></div><div>For a number of reasons, it would probably be good for COIN to have a bigger presence on github---this is the current GOTO host for open source projects these days and it has a lot of nice features. However, I realize not everyone wants to switch to git. We are considering setting up two-way mirroring between subversion and git using a package called subgit that seems to do a pretty good job of this. There are some interesting challenges in doing the mapping---philosphically, git and subversion are very different--but it does a pretty good job of it.<br>
<br></div><div>So, the questions are:<br><br></div><div>1. How many of you would be interested in switching to managing your project with git if you had the chance?<br><br></div><div>2. Would you object to the mirroring of your project to github for any reason?<br>
<br></div><div>I'd appreciate your feedback when you get the chance. It will be difficult to make this work without support from project managers.<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br></div><div>Ted<br>-- <br>Dr. Ted Ralphs<br>
Associate Professor, Lehigh University<br>(610) 628-1280<br>ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu<br><a href="http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted" target="_blank">coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted</a><br>
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