Re: R packages - are we doing the right thing?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:05:41AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Everybody is in favour of doing this.
>
> We had some additional off-list emails. Salient points:
>
> -- let's do this
:-)
> -- I strongly success GitHub because it already has a complete CRAN mirror
> thanks to the work of Gabor Csardi (which whom I am very friendly and
> working already on other things) (and this is no rub to alioth; they are
> already Debian projects in https://github.com/Debian and eg Charles and I
> have access there)
I'd like to add some cons to the Github suggestion:
- Would force people creating a Github account who does not have one (but
on Alioth)
- Makes us depend from a proprietary service
- Disables tools we use to parse metadata on alioth (Umegaya,
prospective_packages parser)
- Other teams (like Debian Perl which was used by Don as an example) have
good experiences with Alioth
Cloning an existing project from Github is cheap enough anyway.
> -- I suggest to create a new "org", maybe debian-r and seed it with a few of
> us (Don, Charles, Steffen, ...)
>
> -- Someone needs to show up "advanced git for packaging"; my skills are
> mostly git and packaging fully separated and though I read the howtos a
> few times my packaging process still fights with git even for (upstream)
> repos like ess where they let me write debian/ straight in)
May be we could cut-n-paste some advise from Debian Med policy[1].
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#git-repository-structures
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