[ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

[Bill Lorensen]

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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