[tor-bugs] #3242 [Website]: Research moving the website from svn to git

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#3242: Research moving the website from svn to git
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     Reporter:  phobos   |      Owner:  phobos
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  reopened
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:  Tor Website 3.0
    Component:  Website  |    Version:
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  www-team
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Comment (by seanmrafferty):

 You should definitely move to Git.  The biggest reason is that it's
 distributed. SVN is awesome, but once you start using a distributed vcs,
 you can't image life with out it. There are plenty of other good reasons
 which are easily found on the web.

 I just wanted to throw this out for debate, but you should seriously
 consider GitHub?  It has great tools to manage git repos. It has wikis and
 issue tracking.  In-line code comments, history, diffs, blames,  It's more
 than capable of handling large open source projects (e.g Rails).

 Trac works fine and you probably get to control everything on your own
 servers.  But these days people see a trac site and think they took a
 wrong turn. I don't mean any disrespect because I love what you all do.  I
 just feel like you might attract more people to contribute by being on
 GitHub. Maybe Tor doesn't need any more contributors. I really don't know,
 but there are a lot of talented people out there who want to be able to
 show off their skills and all their commits on GitHub.  You can debate
 about whether this is good or bad but it can be a win-win for all.  Tor
 can get increased exposure on GitHub, an updated tool set, and possibly
 more contributors from all the hipsters on GitHub.  The hipsters get their
 commits and can show off.  It's just a fact that these days job
 interviewers want to see your GitHub account. I could be wrong, but it
 seems like people are more inclined to help on projects when it also
 benefits their careers.  win-win.

 BitBucket is great, too, but not nearly as popular for open source
 projects. I've used both extensively and consider them equals.  The only
 difference is bitbucket is much much cheaper for companies that have
 dozens or hundreds of commercial/proprietary projects ie not open source.
 You will get much more exposure on GitHub.

 You can always mirror your GitHub repos on your own servers for backups.

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