Chances of moving to Github

[Former user]

Hi, just a curiosity at this point, but what are the chances this repository could move to Github? I think there are scripts that preserve issues and such.

For me the benefit would be keeping things more cohesive, since there are orphaned game-music-emu forks on Github (like kode54's) without any connection to this canonical source. As well as the fact that @mentions don't work across the boundaries, etc.

[Matt Montag]

Oops, I guess I was logged out when I posted.

[Michael Pyne]

I’m open to it if there’s demand for it, I already have a Github account.

I’m not super eager to do a lot of work for the migration but if someone would like to volunteer to help, or a move would help find someone with more time to maintain it, that would help get it going.

[Wohlstand]

I could try to help. I contribute to this project often as I actively use it at my end. That depends on how much you going to migrate it:
- just a source code only: simply create a similar repository at your Github account and push all your local stuff into it, or probably use GitHub’s mirror feature
- include issues: there is a transfer bot needed to be used (the similar bot has been used by SDL folks to transfer all their issues from their Bugzilla thing)
- transfer wiki: they should be basically a bunch of MD files that can be re-uploaded into GitHub side wiki with less effort.

Additionally, I highly recommend you to join your close friends to help maintain the project (if don’t do your own work, just to review/accept/reject pull-requests from contributors, etc.) Otherwise, because almost nobody actively maintains this repository, my pull requests get awaiting for months…

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[mywave]

The source-tree-browser in Github is more userfriendly.

Also I agree to @Wohlstand. Teaming up with at least one more person is feasible to avoid possible orphan project. I have experienced that adding persons to the project is positive for minimum receiving bug fixes and minor updates.

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[Wohlstand]

So, @Michael Pyne , feel free to make a BLANK repo on your GitHub, and add me (https://github.com/Wohlstand) the write access to it, I’ll make an attempt to mirror all the stuff (issues, wiki, etc.) to it.

[Leandro Nini]

You can create an organization on github and add people to it, so the project won’t be tied to a single person.

[Wohlstand]

Good idea. At first, I’ll need just a personal grant (permission) from @Michael Pyne that he is fine that I’ll make the thing. And I will need a link to his GitHub account, so I can add him into the staff list.

[Leandro Nini]

Any progress here?

[Wohlstand]

Bad news for me: my account will be removed after one month because of totally unfair reasons. So, I will be totally unable to contribute/maintain this Bitbucket copy of the repo, so, I made my copy of it: https://github.com/Wohlstand/game-music-emu .

Also, by a luck, I found the account of @Michael Pyne , seems it’s here https://github.com/purinchu.

So, I guess, I could just pick up this project to my side if @Michael Pyne is totally unable to maintain it during his personal reasons. The last problem remaining is a necessary to import issues from this repo to GitHub. I don’t have enough permission to access necessary API to export issues from Bitbucket repo.

[mywave]

There are currently 24 open tickets, so can be done manually over an evening.

If you are soon to be banished from bitbucket, you should probably make a commit updating URLs etc. pointing to github (creating an organization in github is probably a good idea, making the URLs more pretty)

[Wohlstand]

Good idea about organisation. At first, I made the repo as my personal, now I going to make an organisaion then.

[Wohlstand]

Organisation made: https://github.com/libgme

you should probably make a commit updating URLs etc. pointing to github (creating an organization in github is probably a good idea, making the URLs more pretty)

Good notice, I’ll try to perform that today.