[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

[Rafael Ehlers]

Where's the Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.... picture ? lol

well, that happens!

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> Well, that was embarasing...
>
> On Dec 9, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
>
> > Hi Curtis:
> >
> > Off List.  I'm really intrigued by what you are saying.
> >
> > Have you worked on other open source platforms that used this?  Or do you
> have other experience with it?  Ever been a core committer on another
> project?
> >
> > With Otto in such a position of authority in the community and him being
> so against it (which is typical for Otto; if it's not his use-case he'll do
> his best to block it.)  I wonder if we could create another plugin
> repository whose goal would be to prove the concept?  If so, any ideas how
> you might go about putting together such an alternate infrastructure?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for entertaining this "what if" exploration.
> >
> > -MIke
> >
> > On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Curtis McHale wrote:
> >
> >> Could we form a short term team to work on helping plugin authors get
> their plugins into the system?
> >>
> >> Eric Mann wrote:
> >>> It might weed out those plug-ins that are obsolete and abandoned by the
> >>> original developers.  But some plug-ins aren't being "actively"
> developed
> >>> because they still work and don't need any new features.  Forcing the
> devs
> >>> to resubmit a plug-in that hasn't changed in a year or two would be a
> major
> >>> PITA for some.
> >>>
> >>> On the other hand, maybe culling inactive plug-ins from the repository
> by
> >>> forcing a massive resubmit would be a good thing.  We'd have a better
> idea
> >>> of how many plug-ins are available based on how many are resubmitted.
>  But
> >>> I'd still want to keep the old SVN repo available *somewhere* for
> archive
> >>> purposes ...
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM, William Davis<will.davis at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Just wanted to add that there's no reason the plugins would have to
> be
> >>>>> done at the same time as WordPress itself. I'm sure that'll be a huge
> >>>>> undertaking.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Even just offering an official git mirror of the main repository
> would
> >>>>> be a good place to start, so that people don't have to maintain their
> >>>>> own. Then eventually the git mirror can become the official
> repository,
> >>>>> or create a new one, whichever.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We couldn't find a git mirror that was up-to-date _and_ had tags so
> we
> >>>>> had to make our own: https://github.com/dxw/wordpress
> >>>>>
> >>>> I'm sure this won't be popular, but what if plugin authors had to
> resubmit
> >>>> their plugins? It would probably help weed out a ton of old plugins
> that are
> >>>> no longer relevant.
> >>>>
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