Here is a list of what we are loosing when moving to !GitHub: - no private branches (where we'll put our repository for papers?) - no private wiki pages (where we'll put our todo list and referee comments?) - command line unfriendly behavior of the !GitHub download links for .zip and .tar.gz files - here is how it works currently: {{{ wget http://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/downloads/Delphes-3.1.2.tar.gz }}} - here is how it works with !GitHub (command is almost twice longer and with additional parameters): {{{ wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/delphes/delphes/archive/master.tar.gz -O delphes-master.tar.gz }}} - no search in wiki pages (github proposes to do it from command line using grep) - limited code browser: - no way to see file history for files moved to a new directory (gitlab does it and it's now needed because all configuration files moved from examples to cards) - no way to compare old and new versions of the same file (and yes, I regularly use this functionality) - no way to adapt to our needs the interface of the code browser, wiki pages and issue tracker (for example, currently it's difficult to switch from code browser back to documentation) - some information (formatting, dates, users) will be lost after migration of the tickets from trac to github. - backup of github code repositories is more difficult (needs manual intervention for any new repository) - backup of issues/tickets is even more difficult - restore from backup is not clear at all Possible alternatives: - local Trac with local Subversion repository and mirrors on !GitHub, !LaunchPad and !BitBucket as for example it's done by the Trac, and Redmine developers: - http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9235 - ​http://github.com/edgewall/trac - http://github.com/redmine/redmine - local Trac with local Git repository and mirrors - local Redmine with local Git repository and mirrors - local !GitLab with local Git repository and mirrors