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

[Matt McCormick]

Thanks to all for participating in the discussion.

To conclude, there is a desire to work on an open source platform and
stay in sync with CMake, VTK, and ParaView. However, there is
overwhelming support to migrate to GitHub for the open source
community there and developer familiarity.

We will migrate the various infrastructure pieces to GitHub over the
coming months.

Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Yaniv, Ziv Rafael (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]
<zivrafael.yaniv at nih.gov> wrote:
> My vote is for GitHub for the same reasons Dženan gave, familiarity and that
> is where most open source developers interact.
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> GitHub, 84%, 7636
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> Bitbucket , 42%, 3840
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> GitLab, 32%, 2917
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> From: Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 11:20 AM
> Cc: "community at itk.org" <community at itk.org>
> Subject: Re: [ITK] [ITK-users] [ITK-dev] Migration to GitHub
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> More projects in general use GitHub, and more people are familiar with it,
> myself included. Familiarity alone is enough for my vote!
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> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Timothee Evain <tevain at telecom-paristech.fr>
> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> My 2 cents on this brainstorming, if that could help:
> Is there any estimation on how well the VTK and ITK communities overlap? I
> mean, as a mostly ITK user, I came naturally to VTK for all the
> visualization and 3D modelling tasks given the similarities between both
> libraries, so even if I can mostly contribute to ITK, there is still chances
> that I could help on VTK. It may be a biais since I'm working on 3D volumes
> and not 2D images that can be easily displayed elsewhere, but as far as I'm
> concerned, I would favor a united framework for ITK, VTK, 3D Slicer, etc. So
> if the communities are more or less the same people, I would advocate for
> GitLab (plus, that's open sourced). Since you could authentify people from
> GitHub credentials, that don't seems a big side-lining.
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> However, if there is a clear distinction between communities, I think that
> going for GitHub is the best choice to get access to more people, that are
> used to GitHub facilities. That would increase chances of involving people
> into the project.
> (Note that I'm not well aware of the implications of using a close-source
> forge.)
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> HTH,
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> Tim
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> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Matt McCormick" <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
> À: "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com>
> Cc: "Insight-Users" <insight-users at itk.org>, "Hans Johnson"
> <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu>, "Insight Developers List"
> <insight-developers at public.kitware.com>
> Envoyé: Mardi 1 Août 2017 23:59:37
> Objet: Re: [ITK] [ITK-users]  [ITK-dev] Migration to GitHub
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> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 11:40:25 -0400, Francois Budin said:
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>>>As Matt mentioned, the main reason is because a lot of ITK users already
>>>have Github accounts and are familiar with that environment. The idea is
>>>really to make is as simple as possible for the community to contribute.
>>>Using Gitlab would still require users to have an account on GitLab to
>>> push
>>>patches. Most ITK users already have a Github account with their own
>>>projects, and contributing to ITK just requires cloning the project and
>>>creating a pull-request.
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>> The fact that many people are familiar with github and its workflow is
>> indeed a good argument.
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>> But the "using Gitlab would still require users to have an account on
>> GitLab" I think is no argument at all.  Creating a GitLab account is a fast
>> and easy one-time task, the browser can then remember your password, etc.
>> Everyone is used to having a zillion accounts for all the zillion services
>> we all use.
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> Yes, this is true.
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> We already have OAuth sign-in for Gerrit that uses GitHub credentials.
> But, the benefits come more from a familiarity with the user interface
> and deeper integrations like notifications, user and issue references,
> etc.
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