[uf-dev] Re: hReview creator broken + what source control do people prefer?

[anders conbere]

If the maintainer prefers not to spend too much time migrating the
code base. Mecurial has as similar and also very nice host like github
called bitbucket

http://bitbucket.org/

Might be worth looking at.

~ Anders

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Ben Ward <lists at ben-ward.co.uk> wrote:
> On 13 May 2009, at 17:22, Manu Sporny wrote:
>
>> Tantek Çelik wrote:
>>>
>>> Would moving from Mercurial hosted on microformats.org to github.com
>>> (or another system/location) help/encourage folks to participate more
>>> in microformats open source projects?
>>
>> +1 - We use git extensively at our company. I'd certainly be more
>> interested and would contribute the 'microformalyze' application that
>> was used to analyze webpages for hAudio.
>
> I also favour github; it's lovely. More specifically, I favour us getting
> out of the business of running our own repository. It's not well exposed,
> and dedicated parties (Github, Launchpad, Google Code etc.) provide better
> tools that we simply don't have the time to maintain. Plus, they're far
> better exposed to a wider developer community.
>
> The way things stand, we reserve the ‘microformats’ accounts on most of
> those sites. Github's model is especially sweet, in that we can use that
> account to watch/fork other projects for aggregation purposes, whilst the
> work is done by the original authors. It seems very well suited.
>
> I think my favoured solution is:
>
>  * Get code off hg.microformats, onto whatever platform the maintainer
> prefers (Git, Bzr, Svn, whatever)
>  * Use accounts on those services to provide service-level aggregation for
> convenient, but more agnostically:
>  * Get the wiki in order so people can find the projects regardless of where
> they are. I think  http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers could be formatted a
> little differently to link to ‘Project homepages’ as well as ‘source code’,
> provide short summaries as a launchpad for people to get involved.
> Potentially a new ‘/projects’ page to include non-parser code.
>
> That would mean: Brian Suda's X2V, and also various testcases, the latter of
> which most definitely need better exposure and maintenance.
>
> In the case of Manu's Microformatyze, we can get the /microformats account
> to list it.
>
> It shouldn't matter to us what code hosting project creators use, we should
> just better encourage participation.
>
> B
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