Moving to GitHub (project Skara)

[Mario Torre]

On 30/08/2019 13:43, Klara Ward wrote:
> +1 for GitHub

I'm a bit skeptical to be honest, we should first define what the new
process will be before buying the new and shiny.

For instance, it's my understanding that we want to get rid of webrevs
and only use github pull requests, however that would put us in a
situation where jmc is different from the other openjdk projects. Emails
also give us a great overview of what the project is doing, I'm afraid
github will hide most of this making more difficult to reconstruct the
history and evolution of the project.

Of course, I do like some aspect, for a reviewer a pull request is
probably a great way to know a review is necessary, so I don't want to
just rule out this move entirely.

>From my team the consensus was that before moving to github we should
have a very clearly defined process and stick with it.

I would personally add that it would be best to not be among the early
adopters, and rather follow what the rest of the openjdk projects do, in
particular openjdk itself, since we have such a close dependency on it
and we are citizens of the same organisation.

Cheers,
Mario

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