{"id":136,"date":"2011-07-12T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mantisbt.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-01-16T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:47:17","slug":"mantisbt-moving-to-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/archives\/mantisbt\/136","title":{"rendered":"MantisBT Moving to Github"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to announce that as of now, the primary Git repositories for the MantisBT project are hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/mantisbt\">Github<\/a> [1], using the &#8220;mantisbt&#8221; organization for all official code repositories. I&#8217;ve also renamed the development tools repository from &#8220;mantisbt-dev&#8221; to &#8220;mantisbt-tools&#8221; for sake of clarity. Commit emails will now be sent to the mantisbt-cvs list from noreply@github.com rather than git@mantisbt.org.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regarding plugins, I&#8217;ve have created a second organization on Github called <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/mantisbt-plugins\">&#8220;mantisbt-plugins&#8221;<\/a> [2]. Community members with plugins are welcome to join the organization and have their repositories hosted there as a sort of &#8220;official list&#8221; of available plugins. Simply send a request to the developer list, and we will add your Github account and create a repository that you can push to. Any plugins currently hosted on git.mantisforge.org will continue to be available, although we would encourage moving them to Github as time permits.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, this move will benefit both community and developer contribution in multiple ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Github allows for easy &#8220;forking&#8221; to give users their own repository to develop changes in, and also provides a method to submit &#8220;pull requests&#8221; back to the development team or plugin authors.<\/li>\n<li>Github allows users to easily manage their account and SSH keys for all repositories, and has a much friendlier interface for doing so.<\/li>\n<li>Github provides a better repository viewing interface, and allows for superior integration with MantisBT itself via service hooks.<\/li>\n<li>A central plugin organization will allow core developers better access to orphaned or unmaintained community projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions about Github or the process of moving plugin repositories, please send a message to the developer mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>[1] http:\/\/github.com\/mantisbt\/<br \/>\n[2] http:\/\/github.com\/mantisbt-plugins\/<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;d like to announce that as of now, the primary Git repositories for the MantisBT project are hosted at Github [1], using the &#8220;mantisbt&#8221; organization for all official code repositories. I&#8217;ve also renamed the development tools repository from &#8220;mantisbt-dev&#8221; to &#8220;mantisbt-tools&#8221; for sake of clarity. Commit emails will now be sent to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/archives\/mantisbt\/136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MantisBT Moving to Github&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mantisbt","tag-github"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}