On 21 May 2014 16:31, Andrew McNab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 21 May 2014, at 17:17, Adam Huffman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Sam Skipsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> On 21 May 2014 08:44, Andrew McNab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> On 21 May 2014, at 09:28, Tom Whyntie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I see there's a GridPP Organization account on GitHub:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/gridpp
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Does anyone know who manages this?
>>>>
>>>> I registered it last year but ended up creating a vacproject account instead (which is now in use.)
>>>>
>>>> The GridPP one hasn’t been used for anything yet. It would be good to use it if that helps anyone.
>>>>
>>>> More and more projects are appearing on GitHub. Last week we decided to migrate LHCbDIRAC there too. As well as the technical aspects, some employers ask for GitHub history so it can be useful for students and postdocs to have accumulated some GitHub activity.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We're using BitBucket here at Glasgow for the same thing (it has a
>>> similar Academic pricing policy, but also allows you to have more
>>> private repos by default, so it's actually slightly nicer).
>>>
>>>>> 2) Can I join it please? I'm twhyntie
>>>>
>>>> Done.
>>>>
>>>>> Related: GitHub are now offering free upgrades for academic users:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new
>>>>>
>>>>> See https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science for more
>>>>> info (post by @arfon of Galaxy Zoo).
>>>>
>>>> A (free!) paid account would give us private repositories, which might be useful for some things. I think all the other features are the same between free and paid accounts.
>>>>
>>
>> While many features of Github are great, the issue tracking is woeful,
>> which is why in some ways I lament this stampede…
>
> Indeed. LHCbDIRAC decided to stay with JIRA for this reason, and I think it’s straightforward for people with CERN accounts to create project/service accounts and make a JIRA instance for them. So that would be an option for some projects.
>
So, given that you're using JIRA, I am a bit puzzled as to why
LHCbDIRAC jumped to GitHub rather than BitBucket? It seems like it
would make more sense to use the product developed by (and integrated
with) the issue tracking tool you prefer?
Sam
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
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> University of Manchester, UK, M13 9PL.
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