In reply to Alec.

Hi Jason,

Yes, your idea is an interesting one. Where I would agree with Otto/Samuel Wood though is that there should be a single canonical version of the WordPress repository (multiple repositories is one of Linux's maintenance nightmares). WordPress.org plugin moderators have done a good job on being inclusive enough that there's not substantial reason for anyone to open a parallel WordPress repository (imagine the extra work for developers with half a dozen or a dozen active plugins).

No, for me, the missing key is an easy and secure way to deploy from Github (the collaborative environment of choice) to WordPress.org SVN (the end user/web publisher canonical version). It's strange to still be talking about this when the original discussion about Github to WPSVN started no later than 2011.

We'll put up a GPL open source version of GitHub to WPSVN tomorrow on GitHub. The code needs some work to be easily deployed. Hopefully some other people also using GitHub for development and WordPress for deployment will be interested in collaborating.