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GEOS RFC 10 - Move Project to GitHub

RFC 10 Move Project to GitHub
Author Paul Ramsey
Contact pramsey@cleverelephant.ca
Status Accepted, November 9, 2021

GitHub has been the largest source of 3rd party code contribution via pull-requests for some time now.

Moving to Github has the following components:

  • Move the canonical (writeable) repository to GitHub
  • Migrate the (current, useful) contents of the Trac wiki to the new web framework
  • Deleting the migrated and out-of-date contents of the Trac wiki
  • Switching the Trac tickets to read-only
  • Web scraping the Trac ticket contents and placing in a geos-old-tickets repo

At that point:

  • New code is pushed to GitHub
  • New issues are filed at GitHub
  • New documentation is committed to the repository

This should unlock:

  • Easier path for new contributors to discover and assist with the project
  • Easier collaboration with downstream projects
  • Far easier story on “how to we manage the project” and “where the important things happen”
  • Far less dependence on individual contributors for infrastructure work that only they can do