Re: [dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

["Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>]

On 5/1/15, 10:56 AM, "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
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>I believe the DPDK community would benefit from moving to GitHub as the
>primary DPDK site. http://github.com

Here is a good page showing the GitHub features:
https://github.com/features/


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>I believe the DPDK community can benefit from being at a very well know
>world wide site. GitHub seems to have the most eyes of any of the open
>source Git repos today and it appears they have more then twice as many
>developers. GitHub has a number of features I see as some good additions
>to
>our community using the GitHub organization account type.
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>The cost for an organization account is $0 as long as we do not need more
>then 5 private repos. 10 private repos is $25/month and had other plans
>for more. I do not see us needing more then 5 private repos today and the
>only reason I can see having a private repo is to do some prep work on the
>repo before making public. Every contributor would need to create a GitHub
>personal account, which is at no cost unless you need more then 5 private
>repos. In both accounts you can have unlimited public repos.
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>https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to-
>w
>ork-on/
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>http://www.sitepoint.com/using-git-open-source-projects/
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>- Adding more committers can lead to a security problems for 6Wind (I
>assume).
>- 6Wind appearing to own DPDK.org is not a good message to the community.
>  - Not assuming 6Wind¹s dpdk.org site will disappear only where the
>community stores the master repos and how the community interacts with the
>master.
>- Permission and access levels in dpdk.org is only one level and we can
>benefit from having 4 levels and teams as well.
>- The patch process today suffers from timely reviews, which will not be
>fixed by moving.
>  - GitHub has a per pull request discussions area, which gives a clean
>way to review all discussions on a specific change.
>    - The current patch model is clone/modify/commit/send patch set
>    - The model with GitHub is fork on GitHub/modify/commit/send pull
>request
>- The patchwork web site is reasonable, but has some draw backs in
>maintaining the site.
>  - GitHub manages the patches via pull requests and can be easily seen
>via a web browser.
>  - The down side is you do have to use a web browser to do some work, but
>the bulk of the everyday work would be done as it is today.
>    - I think we all have a web browser now :-)
>- GitHub has team support and gives a group better control plus
>collaboration is much easier as we have a external location to work.
>  - Most companies have some pretty high security level and being to
>collaborate between two or more companies is very difficult if one company
>is hosting the repo behind a firewall.
>  - Using GitHub and teams would make collaboration a lot easier or
>collaboration between two or more user accounts as well.
>- GitHub has a Web Page system, which can be customized for the community
>needs via a public or private repo.
>- We still need a dpdk.org email list I believe as I did not find one at
>GitHub.
>  - We can also forward GitHub emails to the list.
>  - I believe you can reply to an email from GitHub and the email will get
>appended to the discussion thread.
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>As most do not like to read long emails :-) I will stop here and add one
>more thing.
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>I believe moving to GitHub for the DPDK community has a lot of advantages,
>but I also understand it will be different process and will cause a bit of
>issues as we convert. Having more eyes plus in a well know public location
>plus utilizing the extra features on Github plus a better public
>modifiable web pages is a few big advantages for the DPDK community.
>
>I have create a sandbox on GitHub for anyone to play with using GitHub.
>You will need to create a GitHub account and an email me your account name
>to add you to the organization site as a contributor.
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>The GitHub site is not a fork of dpdk.org only a sandbox to play with how
>GitHub can help the community to gain more developers in a clean manner.
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>https://github.com/dpdk-org
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>Regards
>++Keith
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