[MEI-L] Hosting MEI on GitHub

[Byrd, Donald A.]

+1 more for GitHub.  --Don


On Sat, 24 May 2014 07:39:08 +0200, Peter Stadler <stadler at edirom.de> wrote:

> +1 for GitHub
>
> Peter
>
>> Am 24.05.2014 um 07:15 schrieb Andrew Hankinson
>> <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> At the MEI Hack Day today we discussed the pros and cons of moving
>> MEI development from Google Code hosting
>> (https://code.google.com/p/music-encoding/) to GitHub. Both of these
>> tools are used to share and collaborate on open source projects.
>> However, it was felt by some that GitHub offers more possibilities
>> for easy collaboration and participation than the Google Code
>> platform, and as such we should consider moving our hosting platform.
>>
>> To see if this was possible we experimented with moving both the
>> code (and its complete version history) and our issue tracker. The
>> results of our testing are available here:
>> https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding. All of the code
>> and issues seem to have been migrated without a problem.
>>
>> Before we make the final decision to switch, however, we wanted to
>> put it to the community to gather any questions or comments about
>> this switch, and to give people an opportunity to voice any concerns
>> they may have.
>>
>> After a period of discussion the technical team will make a final
>> decision and notify the community. This will not be a long period of
>> discussion, since it will be hard (and confusing) to manage two
>> issue trackers and repositories, so please do not wait.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> -Andrew
>>
>>
>
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Donald Byrd
Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Visiting Scientist, Research Technologies
Indiana University Bloomington