I believe two major issues are holding back the advancement of this app by
others in the community:
1. SVN versioning - not very friendly to collaborative work. Patch submission
review process is time consuming.
2. Lack of social integration / loose coupling with various forks of the
project - again, not easy to review / merge patches upstream given SVN and the
current hosting on Google Code. Also, not easy for one fork to merge
changes/improvements from other forks, both because of SVN, and because if
someone transitioned the project to Git, the repos aren't likely to have the
same history. As a result everyone starts from scratch when trying to update
this project.
I think transitioning to Git and hosting the project on Github would help solve
both of the above problems. It would give the community a solid root project
to fork and expand upon, and would also make it simpler (for both the current
project maintainers and contributors) to submit improvements back upstream to
this main project, and for one fork to merge improvements from other forks.
I've helped transition a few projects from SVN to Git/Github (including
retaining the history), and I'd be willing to help with this process if needed.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by sjbarb...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2015 at 10:59
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
sjbarb...@gmail.comon 23 Jan 2015 at 10:59