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

[Siddharth Agrawal]

Hi Ryan,

* I encourage the decision to move to Github, and I agree with you on that
this might probably increase contributions.
* My Github username is siddharth950.

Congratulations in advance for graduating!

Regards,
Siddharth

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Ajinkya Kale <kaleajinkya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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