[visionegg] the future of the VE hosting infrastructure

Hi Vision Egg-ers,

Some years ago I moved the Vision Egg to a self-hosted website so that
we could have integrated SVN/Trac/ and a Wiki all in one place. Since
that time, SourceForge has added similar features, and Google Code,
github, and launchpad have begun offering similar features. A while ago
I had to turn off edits to the wiki as a concession to the never-ending
stream of spam I was filtering and now the Trac issue tracker is getting
hit with spam.

So, perhaps the time is right to move back to a conventional forge-type
site.

My personal thoughts on this are many but don't point to any obvious
solution:
 * I like git, but probably any DVCS is better than svn.
 * SourceForge has problems (UI is terrible, and that's not just the ads).
 * Unnecessary change is not good and will just cause confusion.
 * Having everything at one site would be nice.

I'd like to solicit general feedback on these issues. One specific
question I have is -- does would anyone who uses the svn repository feel
negatively about a move to a DVCS in general or any specific one in
particular?

Any other thoughts?

-Andrew

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Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/
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