Overdue Announcement: Dreamwidth, Github and you

[foxfirefey]

As of several weeks ago, all commits to the Dreamwidth codebases have gone to our new repositories on Github:

• https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free
• https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-nonfree

There are a few relevant wiki documents that have been fully revised to account for this change:

• Moving your Dreamwidth installation to use Github -- these instructions will tell you how to move your current Dreamhack/dev environment over to a Github based installation
• Dev Maintenance -- this document tells you how to keep your Github Dreamwidth based installation (and your Dreamwidth forks) updated with the code from the Dreamwidth repositories
• Draft: Github development process -- This is the document in the least refined state, so keep in mind that it is in stronger need of suggestions and revisions. It goes through the very basics of Git workflow. This and Dev Maintenance might eventually end up merged into one document.

We are working on getting the rest of the wiki development documentation updated (see the dw_wiki post). Feel free to comment to this post with your questions/concerns about the move!

Comments

[baggyeyes]

A question - would I need a high speed connection to do this?

[turlough]

Just a small question from an interested bystander who's used to keeping an eye on what's happening on the coding front through changelog:

Will this mean I'm going to have to change my habits in some way or will all changes still get posted to the comm?

I've noticed that the last few have had Github as the poster and have been even more cryptic than usual. Though that might be because of the content matter, not because of Github, I guess?

[kaberett]

And I am finally migrating ;)