Re: Savannah vs. Gitlab

[David Chisnall]

On 7 Dec 2015, at 11:05, Luboš Doležel <lubos@dolezel.info> wrote:
> 
> 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).

To give a really concrete example of how :

This morning, I fixed a bug in libobjc2.  The person who wrote the bug is doing 
the rust-objc bridge.  He filed the bug via GitHub, which was easy for him 
because all of his other projects are on GitHub and it’s a single sign in.  The 
bug report referenced a failing test case in the Rust bridge, which I could 
easily see (because GitHub allows cross-referencing between projects).  I was 
able to comment on their test case as well, to help them refine it into 
something that will work better as the language evolves.

This is a fairly common interaction for the other projects that I use on 
GitHub.  I have never seen this kind of thing from Savannah.

David




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