Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

[Luboš Doležel]

Dne 29.5.2015 01:27, Stefan Bidigaray napsal:
> Sorry for being late to the discussion, yet again!  I haven't
> committed much recently, but I still wanted to weight-in.
>
> So, reading everyone's reply I get the impression that feel that GIT
> really isn't all that great if you're not using it with a more
> powerful host like GitHub.  Is this true?

No, not true. Whatever GitHub offers is merely added value (issue 
management, wiki) and not important for Git itself at all. At my work, 
we use Git for everything nowadays, with repositories on Bitbucket, but 
we don't really use any of Bitbucket's features; we simply stick with 
JIRA for issue management and planning, and Crucible for code reviews.

Personally, I appreciate mostly the fact that GitHub is like "social 
media", i.e. it makes it very easy for others to contribute and see what 
you offer.

> As for the move to Savannah, I think it's been long overdue.  It has
> offered everything GNUstep needs for quite a long time.  And having
> all the development stuff (bug tracker, source code, etc) in one place
> has some obvious advantages.  That being said, if we move to another
> source code hosting site, lets pick one that can also serve all out
> needs instead of trying to piecemeal it ourselves.

Having had experience with many sites like Savannah, SourceForge, 
GitHub, Bitbucket, etc., I'd greatly recommend the latter ones (esp. 
GitHub) rather than Savannah. Especially if Savannah only offers one 
repo per project - that's totally against the idea of Git.

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Luboš Doležel