[Imc-drupal-dev] IMC related drupal documentation and wishlist

[mark burdett]

Hi, there's one thing I would like to point out about Github: It's a 
proprietary service, run with software that the users can't see or 
modify.  Gitorious.org is an equivalent project run using Free 
Software.  This means you could maintain your own private gitorious, or 
if they went bankrupt and disappeared you could revive the service 
yourself.

I myself have some code on Github and don't mean to sound preachy or 
worse, hypocritical here :) But I think this is something we should 
think about when setting up infrastructure for indymedia projects.

--mark B.

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:55:58 -0500, Benjamin Melan?on wrote:
> Apparently Agaric Design Collective is being pressed into service to
> re-establish the Boston IMC site as quickly as possible.
> 
> We do not have time to make it great by any means, but we'll try to
> set it up very well for future collaboration.  We can establish a
> GitHub project for an Indymedia Drupal distribution, and give whoever
> this list thinks should have commit privileges to it, but the real
> point of having a git project is the ease of forking and merging; the
> boston indymedia site will be derived from this distribution and other
> new and existing Drupal Indymedia (and other independent media) sites
> can likewise build and contribute back, in a more flexible manner than
> Drupal.org and recipes allow (although the goal will continue to be to
> contribute changes and innovations needed by Indymedia back to
> Drupal.org hosted modules and even Drupal core, including the
> installation profile to help it all get set up quickly).
> 
> Sound good?
> 
> benjamin
> 
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