Am Freitag, 30. August 2013, 08:42:56 schrieb Alex Balashov:
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Hello,
as one of the guys who do the maintaince of sip-router.org I'll like to add my thoughts as well.
Moreover, as always, running one's own repo and bug tracker opens up more possibilities for backend automation and integration with third-party tools. Of course, Git is Git, and I'm sure GitHub has some useful APIs, too, and it is likely that the project probably won't be needing such advanced integration in the near future.
We're running indeed some custom services on sip-router.org, like the generation of documentation from code, from docbook, from serctl/ sercmd object files and other stuff. There is also a daily snap shot generation, which we probably like to keep as github removed the possibility to upload and download files some time ago [1]. This stuff still needs to be run and maintained from us even after a move of the git repository.
Still, it's always a trade-off when switching to a "cloud" service. Control is good. [...]
I'd like to second this with that article:
http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/22/the-size-of-open-source-communities-...
It looks (among other topics) to the choice of hosting provider at open source projects at the end of the article. If a project reached a certain size, they tend to move away from github.
I've nothing against a move to github per se, but we'll still need to run sip-router.org and kamailio.org, if only for our webpage and release file hosting.
Best regards,
Henning