[ITK-users] Migration to GitHub

[Johnson, Hans J]

1000 x +1

I enthusiastically support this proposal.

Hans


On 7/31/17, 4:57 PM, "Insight-users on behalf of Jim Miller" <insight-users-bounces at itk.org on behalf of millerjv at gmail.com> wrote:

    +1
    
    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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