Nginx has moved to GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

#11

Post by gpvos » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:41 PM UTC

randomman1131 wrote: post #9

wow! about time... weren't they using mercurial for the longest time too?

They could have moved to Sourcehut instead and kept using Mercurial.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

#12

Post by hinkley » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:42 PM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #2

I wonder how the interim process is handled? They're accepting mailing list updates until the end of the year. Does someone take the mailing list updates and manually PR them into Github? I've never actually used a mailing list so I'm curious how it works.

Remember Linus created git to help deal with an ever escalating inbox full of patches.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by lagniappe » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:43 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #11

randomman1131 wrote: post #9

wow! about time... weren't they using mercurial for the longest time too?

They could have moved to Sourcehut instead and kept using Mercurial.

I don't see that going well.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by pachico » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:44 PM UTC

Help me understand: they just migrated and already have 21k stars?

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by PhilipRoman » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:44 PM UTC

azzentys wrote: post #4

Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see. Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser. Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?

I believe it was added when they made their search more advanced and presumably more resource intensive.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by layer8 » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #12

xeromal wrote: post #2

I wonder how the interim process is handled? They're accepting mailing list updates until the end of the year. Does someone take the mailing list updates and manually PR them into Github? I've never actually used a mailing list so I'm curious how it works.

Remember Linus created git to help deal with an ever escalating inbox full of patches.

You have your history wrong here.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

#17

Post by ak217 » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

pachico wrote: post #14

Help me understand: they just migrated and already have 21k stars?

It was previously a read-only mirror.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by juped » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:47 PM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #2

I wonder how the interim process is handled? They're accepting mailing list updates until the end of the year. Does someone take the mailing list updates and manually PR them into Github? I've never actually used a mailing list so I'm curious how it works.

No, git is an email driven program, not a terrible-webapp driven program. You pipe the email into git am (if it's from mercurial insert hg-patch-to-git-patch into the pipeline, which iirc just rewrites date formats mainly?)

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

#19

Post by oblvious-earth » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:47 PM UTC

pachico wrote: post #14

Help me understand: they just migrated and already have 21k stars?

No, it looks like it's been available on GitHub for a while, but development wasn't done there: https://star-history.com/#nginx/nginx&Date

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

#20

Post by layer8 » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 3:47 PM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #2

I wonder how the interim process is handled? They're accepting mailing list updates until the end of the year. Does someone take the mailing list updates and manually PR them into Github? I've never actually used a mailing list so I'm curious how it works.

Probably the same as with Mercurial before. Mailing lists are just regular emails that are automatically remailed to multiple recipients.