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

[Marcus Edel]

Hello,

I like the decision to move to Github, and I agree with everyone that this might probably increase contributions and attention. Let me know if you need any help with the migration.

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 18 Dec 2014, at 07:16, SAHEB MOTIANI <saheb210692 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Ryan,
> 
> Good move, Git is awesome and won't lead to any problems. And Sid is right, we might get more contributions.
> 
> Long time in Georgia Tech right? Must have been tough to leave :-)
> 
> What are you up to next man? Industry or academics?
> 
> Cheers, 
> Saheb
> 
> On Dec 18, 2014 10:51 AM, "Siddharth Agrawal" <siddharth.950 at gmail.com <mailto:siddharth.950 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <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 <mailto:ryan at ratml.org> |   - Joseph Dunn
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