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

[Ryan Curtin]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 08:09:59PM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> 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.

By all means my experimental posting of mlpack to Github has been a
success, with already over 250 stars and lots of people watching.  The
post on Hackernews has brought a lot of attention too.  And everyone who
I have talked to says it was a good idea.  So maybe the question isn't
"is it a good idea?" but instead "why did you wait so long?" :)

That said, it's been a week and there have been no negative comments, so
I'll finalize this shortly.  There are a couple more Github usernames I
am waiting on, and then I'll rewrite the repo metadata to fix those last
few usernames, transfer all the Trac tickets, and update the website.

I've also moved the mlpack repo to be a part of the mlpack organization:

  http://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/

(Want to be a member of the organization?  Send me an email and I'll
make it happen.)

At Marcus' suggestion, I also created a repo for the mlpack website:

  http://github.com/mlpack/mlpack.org/

I'll send one more email to notify when all of this is done and mlpack
development has (officially and completely) moved to Github.

As a last note, if you've forked mlpack and suddenly find your
repository to be 10,000+ commits ahead and also 10,000+ commits behind,
that's my fault.  It happens when I overwrite author metadata for
commits.  Sorry about that.  Once I finish overwriting author names it
shouldn't happen again.

Ryan

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