[ITK-dev] [ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 18:42:38 EDT 2017


Vtk moved to gitlab.  Have you checked with the Kitware folks to see why
they didn't use gitlab?  For me, either github or gitlab is great.

On Jul 31, 2017 6:03 PM, "Johnson, Hans J" <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> 1000 x +1
>
> I enthusiastically support this proposal.
>
> Hans
>
>
> On 7/31/17, 4:57 PM, "Insight-users on behalf of Jim Miller" <
> insight-users-bounces at itk.org on behalf of millerjv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     +1
>
>     Jim
>
>     > On Jul 31, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Matt McCormick <
> matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi folks,
>     >
>     > We are considering migration of ITK's software process to GitHub, and
>     > we would like your feedback.
>     >
>     > As an open-source, community-driven project, mechanisms to
> communicate
>     > and interact with the community are a high priority for ITK.
>     > Contributing should be as easy as possible. Increasingly over the
> past
>     > many years, GitHub has become the de facto place to interact for open
>     > source development. It is now a hub for:
>     >
>     >  Microsoft
>     >  Facebook
>     >  Google
>     >  The Scientific Python Community
>     >  The 3D Slicer Community
>     >
>     > Our InsightSoftwareConsortium GitHub organization [1] already has 67
>     > people in it and 74 repositories. There are hundreds of projects that
>     > depend on ITK on GitHub. Many ITK developers are familiar with the
>     > development process on GitHub (i.e the pull request process) and
>     > already have an account on this platform. There are also advantages
> to
>     > linking issues and commits with other projects and repositories.
> Since
>     > ITK thrives on the open-source development idea, everyone who wants
> to
>     > help the project should be able to contribute, and therefore it
> should
>     > be as easy as possible to start participating in the community.
>     >
>     > Recently, GitHub's code review capabilities have greatly improved,
>     > which make it more feasible to coordinate contributions for a large
>     > project like ITK. And, there are many existing GitHub-integrated
>     > services that we can leverage.
>     >
>     > Thanks to resources from the National Library of Medicine and
>     > technological advances, it is now feasible to migrate the project's
>     > software process to GitHub. There are many infrastructural aspects to
>     > the migration, and it would take multiple months to complete. Please
>     > let us know your thoughts before we embark on the journey.
>     >
>     >
>     > [1] https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium
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