Migration to new Home

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Since Google abandoned Google Code and it will shutdown this year I think it's 
a good idea to change code hosting. There are many good sites which offer free 
hosting for open source projects like github.com, bitbucket.org or 
gitorious.org. These sites are more popular amongs programmers these days so 
switch may boost pyglet development as well. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fen...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2014 at 5:37

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Can you mention this in the mailing list? Also post details about Google 
closing Google Code and suggestions (add a comment in this report too, so we 
have a record).

I'd love to move to github and git. but others may prefer to keep working with 
mercurial (and then possible in bitbucket).

Thanks for your post!

Original comment by useboxnet on 19 Mar 2014 at 5:44

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I can't find any source that confirms this, the best I found is some news that 
Google Code was killing downloads, but that's old news (2013; and it doesn't 
look like pyglet downloads are disabled).

If you can't provide extra information, I'll close this issue as invalid.

Original comment by useboxnet on 20 Mar 2014 at 8:42

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I'm sorry, I was wrong about Google closing Code. I read news about Google 
killing downloads and since it was a while ago (at least half year from now) my 
memory tricked me. Still, I think moving to other code hosting is reasonable 
idea. Even Google itself is using GitHub (https://github.com/google/). I am 
aware that some project members might have an objections, so it need to be 
discussed. Google Code is dead, even if Google won't shutdown downloads this 
service didn't see any updates for years, I think, which is very visible 
nowadays. Many projects already moved from Google Code to one of its 
alternatives. I can send this proposition to mailing list if you still think 
it's worth consideration.

Original comment by fen...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2014 at 9:43

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I think it's a valid request, but I also think that there are other things to 
do and this topic starts to sound a little bit like "bikeshedding".

I'm not sure that using github will increase valuable contributions (also, why 
github? could it be bitbucket with mercurial? I guess then we could argue that 
the problem is that we don't use git -- even it is actually my personal 
preference). We may get more pull requests, but I'm not that sure that the code 
would get into the repository.

Why do I think that? Because it's not that difficult to read the docs we have 
available and use hg (clone, hack, post a diff into a issue), so "not being in 
github" is a poor excuse. I've contributed to several open source projects and 
every single time I had to figure out how to do it (also, assuming an specific 
workflow just because a project is hosted in github may be wrong!).

Please, excuse me for the rant! Thanks for posting this, even if Google Code is 
not closing :)

Original comment by useboxnet on 20 Mar 2014 at 9:54

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Personally I'm a big fan of git over mercurial, but besides that, I think that 
moving to either Github or Bitbucket would give this project the break through 
it needs and deserves. Note that I'm not actually a Pyglet user, but I'm a big 
enthusiast. I looked into using Pyglet 1.5 years ago, but the project seemed in 
perpetual alpha and I used Pygame instead. Today I decided to give the project 
another look (note that the project I used Pygame for was halted not long 
after, so it's not like I've been using Pygame for 1.5 years now, on the 
contrary, I think Pygame is bloated and ugly), and to my surprise I see that 
while there still is a nice list of new commits coming in every month, it's 
still in alpha (of 1.2).

Github doesn't have the slogan "social coding" without a reason. The easability 
to browse code, create issues and endorsing it by starring it are all things 
which lower the threshold to contribute, in whatever way possible, and spread 
word about the project. Note that many of these points go for Bitbucket as 
well, but Github executes them all just a bit better with a very clean and 
intuitive UI/UX.

Moving to Github would also bring access to third-party services such as Travis 
for running the tests automatically.

Original comment by gwildorsok on 20 Mar 2014 at 9:03

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The article the topic starter was talking about is probably this one:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/whats-next-googles-kill-list-
signs-point-google-code-235117

Original comment by gwildorsok on 28 Mar 2014 at 9:44