[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ntp plugin issues

[Andreas Ericsson]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:30:23PM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> 
> On 14 Mar 2006, at 14:50, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> > Any chance of getting the plugins project swapped to git instead?
> 
> While I can see advantages to using git, the major reason I'm opposed  
> is that SF does not host it. In the spirit of openness, the code for  
> a public project like Nagios Plugins should be publicly available and  
> I don't fancy hosting a git server (with all the interrelated issues  
> with authentication and authorisation which SF gives us for "free").
> 

ghost.op5.se (Git Hosting for OpenSource Things) has been built to
handle that. The bandwidth is nowhere near what sourceforge has, but
we won't be hosting 120.000 projects either, so...

> However, I notice that SF is promoting Subversion. I would be swayed  
> to moving to that if there is demand.
> 

The main argument against CVS and SVN is the centralized repository
model. If nagiosplug had used a distributed tool I wouldn't have
forked the plugins way back when I did so, but I had to since working
against the central repo for diffing and patching was just way too big
a pain in the ass (not least given the failing availability of sf CVS
and the 350 ms latency from Sweden). With a distributed repository I
could have just kept my own modifications in a separate branch, rebasing
it as necessary pending inclusion upstream. It would also be possible to
do away with the patch-handling thing at sourceforge (which is
excruciatingly slow and terribly annoying), since git has tools aplenty
for sending patches by email, as well as applying those same patches to
a repository.

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