Moving from apache-extras back to github
Hi everybody, When first starting work on the CQL driver for node[1] , work was done on github. After a while it was moved to apache-extras so it could be more uniform with the other drivers. However, the experience on apache-extras is not good as collaboration is difficult. That, and because the node.js community does almost all of its work via github, I'd like to move the node cassandra client back to github[2]. Any strong objections against this? Cheers, Gary. 1. http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-node/ 2. https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client
Re: Moving from apache-extras back to github
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: > When first starting work on the CQL driver for node[1] , work was done > on github. After a while it was moved to apache-extras so it could be > more uniform with the other drivers. However, the experience on > apache-extras is not good as collaboration is difficult. > > That, and because the node.js community does almost all of its work > via github, I'd like to move the node cassandra client back to > github[2]. > > Any strong objections against this? I don't have any objections, but I wonder, is there someway to salvage the "discover-ability", and/or consistency aspects? One option would be to make Github The Place. I'd be cool with that, but it means the disruption of a move, and doesn't rule out the possibility that someone won't want to host elsewhere down the road (say because they want to use mercurial, or svn). Could we retain the Google Code pages as project hosting somehow, disabling everything but the Downloads tab and adding prominent links to Github for issue tracking? You might even be able to leave the source tab enabled and keep it updated as a mirror. -- Eric Evans Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu
Re: Moving from apache-extras back to github
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: >> When first starting work on the CQL driver for node[1] , work was done >> on github. After a while it was moved to apache-extras so it could be >> more uniform with the other drivers. However, the experience on >> apache-extras is not good as collaboration is difficult. >> >> That, and because the node.js community does almost all of its work >> via github, I'd like to move the node cassandra client back to >> github[2]. >> >> Any strong objections against this? > I don't have any objections, but I wonder, is there someway to salvage > the "discover-ability", and/or consistency aspects? > One option would be to make Github The Place. I'd be cool with that, > but it means the disruption of a move, and doesn't rule out the > possibility that someone won't want to host elsewhere down the road > (say because they want to use mercurial, or svn). > Could we retain the Google Code pages as project hosting somehow, > disabling everything but the Downloads tab and adding prominent links > to Github for issue tracking? You might even be able to leave the > source tab enabled and keep it updated as a mirror. For the ruby-cql driver, it's easy enough to just have both github and apache-extras upstream and to let people use whichever one makes them happy to push patches around, I don't find it particularly onerous at all. Most people appear to prefer github but pushing changes back to apache-extras is trivial. As long as the 'official' drivers are linked to from some officialish place so that people don't have to go searching for which version of what to use, I think we're good. Few things are more irritating than spending hours trying to find the right version of something to use. Kelley Reynolds CTO / Cofounder, RubyScale
