[mary-dev] Test-running MARY TTS development on github

[Marc Schroeder]

Dear all,

We are currently testing whether to move the MARY TTS development from 
our own subversion/TRAC system to github.

The current state of the repository has been imported into the following 
location on github:

https://github.com/marc1s/marytts

You will see that there are two branches, the ones that are actively 
maintained at the moment: master (which was called trunk in svn) and 4.x 
(the 4.x-branch from SVN).


I would like to ask anybody interested in contributing code to MARY TTS 
to give this version on github a try. All you need is a free github 
account, then you can go to the above page and click "fork" to get your 
own local copy of the repository. You can then add your changes there, 
and when you want to get them merged into the centrally maintained 
version, you issue a so-called "pull request" which allows us to see 
your changes, to comment on them, and when we are happy with them, to 
merge them into the system.

There is excellent documentation on github.com which should help you get 
started.


My hope with this move is to lower the barrier to contributing code to 
MARY TTS, especially the burden on us to manually merge modifications 
into the system. At the same time, there is a natural code reviewing 
step which should help ensure the quality of submitted code.


During this test people with write permission to the SVN should please 
refrain from using it, and try the github approach instead. We'll leave 
it at that for a few weeks, and if that works fine, we'll switch the SVN 
to read-only mode.


As to the trac system at http://mary.opendfki.de, I think the wiki and 
tickets will simply continue to be used for the moment, as before. I see 
no pressing need to change this. It is the revision control features of 
github that seem most relevant to fostering collaboration and contributions.


Comments welcome!

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Marc


-- 
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Project leader for DFKI in SSPNet http://sspnet.eu
Team Leader DFKI TTS Group http://mary.dfki.de
Editor W3C EmotionML Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net

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