Re: Savannah vs. Gitlab

[Luboš Doležel]

Dne 4.12.2015 16:24, David Chisnall napsal:
> On 4 Dec 2015, at 09:55, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:
> > Primary hosting on Github? *shrug* there are no strong benefits, I 
> > think, and sufficient number of people would be happier if we hosted 
> > elsewhere.
>
> I strongly disagree with this.  The benefits for collaboration from
> being able to easily see who has forked your repo, to post comments on
> their code asking about upstreaming, and so on are huge.
>
> GitHub is far more than just a hosting service (though one that has an
> issue tracker that integrates tightly with the revision control
> system, and a decent code review system), it’s also a social platform
> and that’s where the majority of its value lies.
>
> David

I concur. We're talking about a "number of people" who would prefer 
Savannah, but the amount of people actually submitting code is very low. 
Just going to Savannah's website makes me feel like this is a dead 
project.

If - for whatever reason - you later come to the conclusion that GitHub 
was not the right choice, migrating elsewhere is a matter of hours.

If I were Greg, I'd also consider moving the whole project away from 
FSF. While I recognize the importance FSF has (had) for open source, 
just the need to do a snail mail round-trip with FSF to be allowed to 
contribute is a great obstacle for any FSF project. And I can tell you, 
a legally worthless one in my case - the Czech law explicitly forbids 
reassigning copyright except in well-defined cases (employee to employer 
and inheritance after author's death).

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Luboš Doležel