moving to the cloud for development
Jul. 26th, 2009 10:04 am![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
markEdit, read first: After a lot of looking and talking to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
damned_colonial, only Launchpad is under consideration now. But the rest of the entry is preserved for interested parties.
Now the question is, how big of a change is this for us, and does it provide enough positive benefit considering the interruption? I think it does, what do you think?
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After OSCON, I'm considering hosting the Dreamwidth code on Launchpad or GitHub, which are both open source project hosting environments that give you a lot of really cool collaborative features and help to lower the barriers for people to get working on things. Plus, it makes it really easy to federate the code like we want people to be able to federate the site.
I'd love people to go take a look and comment with their thoughts:
Launchpad has a site tour: https://launchpad.net/+tour/index
GitHub has some 'what we offer' halfway down the front page: http://github.com/
Yes, both of these would require that we learn either Bazaar or Git (as opposed to the Mercurial we use right now). And we'd have to figure out how to setup![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
changelog to work with it. But those are minor hurdles, if the advantages of being in a hosted environment like that are really worth it.
damned_colonial, only Launchpad is under consideration now. But the rest of the entry is preserved for interested parties.Now the question is, how big of a change is this for us, and does it provide enough positive benefit considering the interruption? I think it does, what do you think?
...
After OSCON, I'm considering hosting the Dreamwidth code on Launchpad or GitHub, which are both open source project hosting environments that give you a lot of really cool collaborative features and help to lower the barriers for people to get working on things. Plus, it makes it really easy to federate the code like we want people to be able to federate the site.
I'd love people to go take a look and comment with their thoughts:
Launchpad has a site tour: https://launchpad.net/+tour/index
GitHub has some 'what we offer' halfway down the front page: http://github.com/
Yes, both of these would require that we learn either Bazaar or Git (as opposed to the Mercurial we use right now). And we'd have to figure out how to setup
changelog to work with it. But those are minor hurdles, if the advantages of being in a hosted environment like that are really worth it.