On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 07:18 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
As I recall, one of the claimed advantages of using github over
fedorahosted is the ease with which people can submit code - the idea
being that new contributors are more likely to have a github account
than a FAS account.
I'm curious whether anyone has observed an uptick in external
contributions since the switch over to github, does anyone have any
numbers or opinions on that?
Switching to github has had quite some consequences as far as I have
seen:
- We started to do code review (which is nice and sometime annoying,
because you have to wait for someone to review your changes)
- We started using the git flow approach, which means that are
repositories have an exploding number of branches (either still opened,
old but not removed or in their history)
- From what I saw, I think more people contribute to the projects in
general but except for some code review, I still see mostly the same
people as before
- We (the team) have a pretty good place to see what's going on in the
different projects, that's something I find nice
So to answer your question, I cannot say I have seen many new comers,
but more contributions from people within the team. Others might have a
different experience though :)
(Suddenly I remember rube which had a number of contributors outside of
the standard team as well as fedmsg, but that one was already on github)
Pierre