Re: [eigen] Bitbucket is dropping its Mercurial support!

Hi Christoph,

>> as a user and rare contributor, I would welcome the migration from hg (that I never really learned to use) to git - and at the same time, from bitbucket to a github or gitlab based hosting

I second exactly that - the one or two times I've contributed something small, it was quite a bit of a hassle, not being familiar with mercurial - I'd be looking forward to a switch to git.

Also I can very much recommend GitLab.com. Its feature set is vastly larger and more useful than that of GitHub - GitLab has so much better issue tracking, milestones, and so many more really useful things to organise a project. At the same time, it's not bloated at all and simple to use.

It's also "open-core", i.e.. the basic version of it is open-source, and it could be self-hosted (which I wouldn't recommend, GitLab.com hosting does a very fine job and is free too). IIRC, I believe that for open-source projects, one can also apply for a lifetime free Gold plan. I am sure they'd be immensely happy to host the Eigen project.

Best wishes,

Patrik

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 12:09, Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I wouldn't be surprised if migrating to github will find a majority (but
I'd like to hear a few more opinions -- especially from people who have
experience with migrating more than just code).

Please do not start using the PR feature of the git-mirror, until we
officially suggest to do that. It will likely only complicate
migrating/joining in the future (and of course we can't just merge PRs
to the mirror. The only reason why PRs are possible at the mirror, is
because it is not possible to deactivate PRs on github ...)

Cheers,
Christoph

On 21/08/2019 16.35, Andrea Bocci wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> as a user and rare contributor, I would welcome the migration from hg (that
> I never really learned to use) to git - and at the same time, from
> bitbucket to a github or gitlab based hosting.
>
> If the decision is to migrate the official repository to github, people
> could already start using the https://github.com/eigenteam/eigen-git-mirror
> mirror for all "pull" operations. >
> Regards,
> .Andrea
>

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