Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 24, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > On 8/24/2014 10:24 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat >> wrote: >>> But never mind . Sooner or later. >> These things take time, but a lot has happened over the past years. By >> now all activity of r-

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-24 Thread Brian Lee Yung Rowe
One thing to note about git vs svn is that each git repository is a complete repository containing the full history, so despite github acting as a central repository, it is not the same as a central svn repository. In svn the central repository is typically the only repository with a complete re

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-24 Thread Spencer Graves
On 8/24/2014 10:24 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote: But never mind . Sooner or later. These things take time, but a lot has happened over the past years. By now all activity of r-base [1] cran [2] and r-forge [3] is continuously mirrored on Github,

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-24 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote: > > But never mind . Sooner or later. These things take time, but a lot has happened over the past years. By now all activity of r-base [1] cran [2] and r-forge [3] is continuously mirrored on Github, which already gives unprecedented insigh

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-24 Thread Gaurav Sehrawat
I was moreover concerned over bridging gap between web2.0 and web1.0 development methodologies & thus passing code to younger generation . But never mind . Sooner or later . Cheers. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > As someone who has merged more than a hundred pull request

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-21 Thread Yihui Xie
As someone who has merged more than a hundred pull requests on Github, I cannot agree more. Sometimes I can take patches on my mobile phone while I'm still in bed if they look reasonable and simple enough. Sometimes the patches are not worth emails back and forth, such as the correction of typos. I

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Aug 21, 2014, at 3:11 AM, Gaurav Sehrawat > wrote: > >> R-Project is missing something important in regards to its development , >> one simply can't ignore Github ,where collaboration is at it's best . >> >> OR If i am wrong is this the

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Your suggestion to move to Github is perhaps based upon a false premise, that > the R community at large has the ability to directly post code/patches to the > official distribution. That's not the false premise here. This is: "one sim

Re: [Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-21 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Aug 21, 2014, at 3:11 AM, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote: > R-Project is missing something important in regards to its development , > one simply can't ignore Github ,where collaboration is at it's best . > > OR If i am wrong is this the correct R-source : > https://github.com/wch/r-source > > Is any

[Rd] Why R-project source code is not on Github

2014-08-21 Thread Gaurav Sehrawat
R-Project is missing something important in regards to its development , one simply can't ignore Github ,where collaboration is at it's best . OR If i am wrong is this the correct R-source : https://github.com/wch/r-source Is anyone thinking to bring R-project org on Github ? Maybe there might be