[ITK-dev] [ITK-users] [ITK] Migration to GitHub

[Sean McBride]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 11:40:25 -0400, Francois Budin said:

>As Matt mentioned, the main reason is because a lot of ITK users already
>have Github accounts and are familiar with that environment. The idea is
>really to make is as simple as possible for the community to contribute.
>Using Gitlab would still require users to have an account on GitLab to push
>patches. Most ITK users already have a Github account with their own
>projects, and contributing to ITK just requires cloning the project and
>creating a pull-request.

The fact that many people are familiar with github and its workflow is indeed a good argument.

But the "using Gitlab would still require users to have an account on GitLab" I think is no argument at all.  Creating a GitLab account is a fast and easy one-time task, the browser can then remember your password, etc.  Everyone is used to having a zillion accounts for all the zillion services we all use.

Cheers,

Sean