Github

[alexbayleaf]

I've set up https://github.com/Growstuff so for those of you know are au fait with github, well, now you know.

For those who aren't familiar, github is a platform that allows software developers (or anyone really) to collaborate on projects by keeping track of all the files, managing different versions of your work as it changes over time, and allowing multiple people to work in parallel and then merge their work together when they're ready, without stepping on each other's toes. Version control is one of the really important foundational tools of any modern software project, and github is the platform of choice for most open source projects these days.

(A while ago, I wrote a description of version control and github in the context of another project, AO3. I'm told it's a good intro for people who have absolutely zero understanding of version control and/or github, so if that's you, then you might like to read it. There's some other stuff there about the AO3 project specifically, but you can safely ignore that if you're not interested.)

So this post re: github is mostly just an FYI, but if someone could try joining the project, that'd be nice. I'm not sure how it works with Organizations on github... there's some stuff about teams etc that I don't fully understand, so having some members to try stuff out on might be handy.

Comments

[shadowspar]

Hmmm....I can't see any way to join the Growstuff organization, and the github help wasn't very helpful. I don't know if I need to be on a team first, or if there's any way to add myself to an org or team.

I'm rickscott over on github.

[gchick]

Same problem here - from the little info I could find, it looks like organizations have to have people added by an org admin? (sabreuse on gh, if you want to add me)

I wonder if this should be a project instead of an organization? Organizations seem to be aimed at setting permissions for closed teams (companies, governments, and the like)

[alexbayleaf]

No, because we'll need multiple projects.

Can you follow/join this project? https://github.com/Growstuff/org

[gchick]

Ah, gotcha. And no problems watching the org project.

[japester]

I get a 404 when clicking on that link :(

japester@github

[alexbayleaf]

After some IRC discussion we renamed it to Growstuff/project, sorry!

[cesy]

Adding people to the organisation gives them various admin powers, so in most cases you'll want a small dedicated core with that, and the rest of us just forking and making pull requests.