Typo goes GitHub
I’ve always been pretty hostile to Git and Mercurial like version control systems, and have a particular love to SVN. We’ve however decided today to switch Typo from Subversion to Git, and more precisely on Github. Sources have already migrated on a new repository, and we’re going to close the old one soon.
There are many reasons for this. Some of them are dead obvious, some other are less, but things are now done.
Why choosing Git?
Because Cyril Mougel, my co maintener has been harassing me for months and bribing me with fresh Guiness.
A large majority of Ruby on Rails projects have already migrated from Subversion to Git, following the framework itself. While Typo was sticking to Rails 2.0.2, this didn’t bother us at all. With trunk having switched to Rails 2.2, managing external resources has become impossible. We’re now using both Git submodules for Rails itself, and gem dependencies for other plugins. We’re trying to enlighten our codebase, which has recently been drastically reduced with a double sides axe.
I also wanted to split our officially supported plugins in separate repositories after moving them apart Typo itself. Each plugin now has its own depot, and it’s cleaner this way.
Why Github?
Mostly for marketing and visibility purpose. But also for its great usability and user friendlyness.
We’ll keep using Redmine at Typosphere. The codebase has been cloned locally and will be refreshed every hour to be displayed on the depot part of the site. This is still in progress but will be done very quickly.[…]
Moving from trac to redmine and other upcoming plans
Once again, we’re late on our planned schedule since Typo 5.0.4 should have been released 5 days ago. Piers and I have been pretty busy lately, and I’m now waiting for some external material in order to release a 5.0.4b1.
Since I was moving Typosphere to a new server, a nice 2.33ghz dual core with 4gb RAM running an Apache and mod_rails on FreeBSD, I also wanted to stop using trac as a bug tracker. In spite of being used by many open source projects around, trac is just a bloatware. I was really fed up with cleaning the session table twice a month just to avoid having it consuming 99% of my server resources. There was another reason why I wanted to ditch Trac: it’s Python, and Redmine is Ruby. As far as I know, every URL but the RSS has been redirected properly.
Typogarden is going to change too and become a theme repository based on a Typo install. I will certainly call for gardeners someday to maintain the thing once I’ve installed the new Typogarden in its new home.
More to come soon, stay tuned.[…]
