[mlpack] Request for comments: move from svn to git (and Trac to github)

[Ajinkya Kale]

I was composing an email to suggest the move(which I have in the past too)
to git when this came in :)
I feel the adoption will definitely increase with the move.
On Wed Dec 17 2014 at 5:10:11 PM Ryan Curtin <gth671b at mail.gatech.edu>
wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I wanted to separate this into a different email so that the discussion
> doesn't get muddled (assuming threaded email clients... :)).
>
> At the end of this summer I'll be leaving Georgia Tech (finally) and
> this means that the subversion and Trac services provided to us by the
> Georgia Tech College of Computing will no longer be available.
>
> In my view the reasonable thing to do is move to git (it is 2014, after
> all) and this is also complemented well by a move to Github.  It is my
> belief that this will help ease the contribution process, and
> potentially even help the adoption of mlpack.
>
> So I've experimentally ported the subversion repository (plus history
> back to 2007!) to git and posted it on github:
>
>   https://github.com/rcurtin/mlpack
>
> and in the following days I will port the Trac tickets to Github issues,
> and barring any serious concerns or problems with transferring to
> github, I'll move the repository to be a part of the 'mlpack'
> organization and we can start using that for development in general
> (I'll have to update and potentially redo the website, too).
>
> So the purpose of this email is twofold:
>
>  * Does anyone have a serious problem with or a highly preferred
>    alternative to Github?
>
>  * If you have contributed to mlpack's svn repository under some
>    username, I can (and would like to) link these contributions with
>    your Github profile (if you have one), if you get me your Github
>    commit name and email.
>
> --
> Ryan Curtin    | "I'm just going to shoot you once!"
> ryan at ratml.org |   - Joseph Dunn
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