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Any plan to move R development completely to GitHub? #38

Open waynelapierre opened 1 year ago

waynelapierre commented 1 year ago

Like what Python development does now: https://github.com/python

gmbecker commented 1 year ago

I am not on R-core, and so hesitate to speak for them, but when this has come up in the past the response has been a pretty emphatic no, as github may be the home of many FOSS products, but it is not FOSS itself, leading some members of R-core to be strongly opposed to such a move.

So the answer, at the very least, is a strong "not with the current R-core"

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Like what Python development does now: https://github.com/python

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lawremi commented 1 year ago

Back in September (2022) @deepayan volunteered to lead a task force exploring how R core could take advantage of GitHub.

jennybc commented 1 year ago

Somewhat related to #6

waynelapierre commented 1 year ago

I am not on R-core, and so hesitate to speak for them, but when this has come up in the past the response has been a pretty emphatic no, as github may be the home of many FOSS products, but it is not FOSS itself, leading some members of R-core to be strongly opposed to such a move. So the answer, at the very least, is a strong "not with the current R-core"

There are thousands of GPL licensed projects hosted on GitHub...

gmbecker commented 1 year ago

I am not on R-core, and so hesitate to speak for them, but when this has come up in the past the response has been a pretty emphatic no, as github may be the home of many FOSS products, but it is not FOSS itself, leading some members of R-core to be strongly opposed to such a move. So the answer, at the very least, is a strong "not with the current R-core"

There are thousands of GPL licensed projects hosted on GitHub...

I'm aware of that and it doesn't change what I said. My own work is on github. I am simply conveying what I have heard when this topic has come up in the past. Its possible from what Michael said that there has been some minimal movement in this regard since I was last in a conversation about this, but not much, as of yet.

deepayan commented 1 year ago

Back in September (2022) @deepayan volunteered to lead a task force exploring how R core could take advantage of GitHub.

Yes, hopefully there will be some movement on this soon-ish.

There are no plans to move away from subversion as R's primary SCM system though, so the answer to @waynelapierre's question is a definite NO at this point.