[ITK] [ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

[Jim Miller]

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Jim

> On Jul 31, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> We are considering migration of ITK's software process to GitHub, and
> we would like your feedback.
> 
> As an open-source, community-driven project, mechanisms to communicate
> and interact with the community are a high priority for ITK.
> Contributing should be as easy as possible. Increasingly over the past
> many years, GitHub has become the de facto place to interact for open
> source development. It is now a hub for:
> 
>  Microsoft
>  Facebook
>  Google
>  The Scientific Python Community
>  The 3D Slicer Community
> 
> Our InsightSoftwareConsortium GitHub organization [1] already has 67
> people in it and 74 repositories. There are hundreds of projects that
> depend on ITK on GitHub. Many ITK developers are familiar with the
> development process on GitHub (i.e the pull request process) and
> already have an account on this platform. There are also advantages to
> linking issues and commits with other projects and repositories. Since
> ITK thrives on the open-source development idea, everyone who wants to
> help the project should be able to contribute, and therefore it should
> be as easy as possible to start participating in the community.
> 
> Recently, GitHub's code review capabilities have greatly improved,
> which make it more feasible to coordinate contributions for a large
> project like ITK. And, there are many existing GitHub-integrated
> services that we can leverage.
> 
> Thanks to resources from the National Library of Medicine and
> technological advances, it is now feasible to migrate the project's
> software process to GitHub. There are many infrastructural aspects to
> the migration, and it would take multiple months to complete. Please
> let us know your thoughts before we embark on the journey.
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium
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