On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 00:27, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð
Bjarmason
<avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you're one of the guilty or know the
contact info for them please
add it to USERINFO/
Probably some people don't want to publish their real name or e-mail
address publicly.
They should still add a USERINFO file. You can just set "name" to your
nickname (or SVNID) and email: to an empty value to specifically.
A non-public E-Mail is more odd, if you do any development on
MediaWiki then you're going to use Bugzilla or MediaWiki-l or
Wikitech-l which all require an E-Mail address and will make it public
without any attempt at obfuscation.
But if you *really* don't want a public E-Mail address if we convert
to Git despite that then you can just put an empty "email: " key in
the USERINFO file.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð
Bjarmason
<avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What we're trying to do is:
* Set up a git-svn mirror on github which people can use to work with
MediaWiki's SVN through Git
We've been given free hosting by Github to do this there:
http://support.github.com/discussions/site/1281-are-you-interested-in-givin…
Even if you don't want to use git-svn it's nice to have a mirror or
Github just because it makes it easy for a lot of people already there
to follow the project.
IMO, we want git hosting on Wikimedia servers. With git, it's trivial
to move the actual repository later, but it's not trivial to update
all the links people have been using. I don't want a repeat of the
situation with SourceForge, where we had people downloading ancient
versions of MediaWiki for years because we couldn't point SourceForge
to the new official site. That *is* a very real risk if we're using
hosting we don't control.
If people prefer working with github, of course, we could have the
official(-er) one at
git.wikimedia.org, and keep a copy at github that
automatically pulls from the Wikimedia one. But I really don't think
we want to point people to
github.com URLs as the *primary* source to
get MediaWiki via git, just as a secondary option.
We don't even have a working conversion yet, talking about eventual
hosting for the Official Wikimedia Git if and when it happens is
really premature.
The issues you cite with SourceForge aren't going to be a problem
anywhere else though; SF is a really special case of a fail
singularity :)