Forum: Ruby Where to host the Ruby Project Source Code

Hi,

I have created the Ruby Driver for CUBRID Database System. Currently
working on ActiveRecord Adapter for CUBRID. The driver gem has already
been pushed to RubyGems.org, so available through "gem install cubrid".
At this moment the source code is hosted at sourceforge.net in CUBRID's
SVN.

Recently some users proposed to branch out and open a separate project
for CUBRID Ruby Driver/AR at Github, so that the developers could make
contributions.

Before we make the final decision, I would like to ask for everyone's
opinion what is the best place (again, in your opinion) to host Ruby
Project's source code? Currently the solid options are Github.com and
SF.net. I heard Ruby devs prefer Github over sf.net. This will be very
important decision, as the further complete development and project
hosting will take place over there.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Esen.

By the way, the proposal came from twitter user. The conversation can be 
traced from here http://twitter.com/fredwu/statuses/20136015846.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Esen Sagynov <kadishmal@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> important decision, as the further complete development and project
> hosting will take place over there.
>

Well if you look at all of the Ruby extensions that are popular and in
active development,
they are all on GitHub. You will have to retool from using SVN to using 
Git,
its about the
only downside (its not frictionless), but in terms of engaging with the 
Ruby
Open source
community it is important.

Esen Sagynov wrote:
> Currently the solid options are Github.com and
> SF.net. I heard Ruby devs prefer Github over sf.net.

rubyforge.org is the granddaddy, and does now support git I believe, but 
these days almost everyone uses github. It has great on-line browsing of 
commits and history.

Brian Candler wrote:
> rubyforge.org is the granddaddy, and does now support git I believe, but 
> these days almost everyone uses github. It has great on-line browsing of 
> commits and history.

Sounds like more and more Rubyists prefer Github. At least there is 
something to back up the decision.

Hi Esen,

As I suggested in the tweet, I am pro-Github.

Don't get me wrong, SF.net is an excellent platform, however, in the 
ruby community, Github is a *much* more popular collaborative platform.

During the SF.net days, I rarely submit patches. But ever since I 
started using Github, I've been contributing to numerous projects 
including Rails. It is just so easy to fork and contribute to projects: 
http://github.com/fredwu

It is safe to assume that by open sourcing the code on Github, you would 
attract more attention, and developers are more likely to fork the 
project and contribute.

I don't know about the others, but I personally only use SF.net to 
download packaged files... (guilty as charged, I know.)

Just my 2 cents. :-)

Cheers,
Fred

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Esen Sagynov <kadishmal@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> contributions.
> Esen.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
I tend to be skeptical of code not hosted on github, I associate it with
projects that haven't been active in a long time. Not necessarily true, 
I
know, but it weighs in my decisions when searching for gems.

Josh Cheek wrote:
> I tend to be skeptical of code not hosted on github, I associate it with
> projects that haven't been active in a long time. Not necessarily true, 
> I
> know, but it weighs in my decisions when searching for gems.

So, you say you vote for Github, right?

The final decision has been made and the CUBRID Database Connector for 
Ruby has been hosted at Github (github.com/CUBRID/cubrid-ruby). All Ruby 
fans are welcomed to participate in the project and make their valuable 
contributions.

Thanks to everyone for joining this discussion.