Hi MJ,
First, I'll say, as always, I appreciate your perspective,
I think you do raise some good points. See responses below:
----- "MJ Ray" <address@hidden> wrote:
[...] we're software developers, not proper sys admins [...]
I do currently work as a proper sysadmin (as much as a programmer,
most weeks) which is why I've not been that active on koha lately.
The comment was certainly not meant as an insult to you or anyone
else on koha-devel. It was specifically relevant to the current
project administrators, Chris, Paul and me.
git is dead easy. Really. If you're going to do something
dangerous,
you almost always can take a backup and put it back if you break
things (it's just a directory on disk in many ways). Give it a go.
Also, if other koha developers had been using git and the
cvs-compatibility commands, we could all have been working through
this Savannah downtime.
It's not that git, arch, etc., are hard to use ... it's the
concept and management of a distributed version control system,
and the lack of a clear leader in this arena that leads me to
conclude that DVC is not quite there yet. We don't have much
bandwidth to devote to managing a version control system in this
community, I don't want to hop from DVC to DVC as I've seen so
many other projects do. Again, this is my opinion, I'm not speaking
for the Koha community or for Paul / Chris ... I'd love to hear
everyone else's thoughts on the matter.
Excuse my wariness on this, but I've seen good hosting services go
strange in the past, changing project administrators and other tricks
themselves. I've no idea whether Google would do that, but I also
can't see what we could do to them if they did.
I can appreciate the wariness; whatever decision we make, it's clear
we need to mirror the repository to ensure survival.
I'd like to hear more input from others, do MJ's concerns resonate?