[ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

[Matt McCormick]

I have followed VTK's migration to GitLab, and Kitware has done an
excellent job with it. That said, I still think GitHub is the better
choice for ITK. Also, the technical and social situation has changed
in the time since VTK moved to GitLab.

I think the key factor is "community", and GitHub has the open source community.

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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