[ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree. I argued against gitlab but lost...

+1 for this move.


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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