Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags

[Colomban W. <lis...@he...>]

Hi,

Le 19/12/2014 06:55, Darren Hiebert a écrit :
> If I understand you correctly, you are proposing that the source code
> no longer be hosted at SourceForge, which is what I would prefer.

If we switch to Git (and I love Git!), we can have the code hosted on
several places very easily (with any DVCS actually).  We can push it
both to SF and GitHub and whatnot.  With hooks it's even very easy to
maintain copies in sync.

My point is only that using a DVCS means we don't have to remove the
code from anywhere.

> What are the reasons that you believe that SourceForge cannot provide
> the support necessary?

Unfortunately, AFAIK SF doesn't provide something similar to Pull
Requests (also called Merge Requests on some other platforms), which are
a really handy way of submitting and reviewing changes.  GitHub's UI
there is very nice I must admit.

Also, I know many people facing recurrent login issues with SF, like
getting disconnected very often, sometimes in the middle of an action
making them lose the content of a form and these kind of things.  And SF
has other weird issues, but that's (partly) another topic.
Anyway, as much as I hate switching from a more-or-less open platform to
a closed one, GitHub seems a lot more practical to use today, at least
for the code part (I can't really tell for the bug tracker part, but GH
has one that while having seemingly less features seem to work just fine
in practice).

However note that there are open alternatives to GitHub if that's one
thing that annoys you, one just has to search a bit -- and often, host
it, which is both great and not so much.

Regards,
Colomban


PS: oops, I missed the list last time and only answered Darren.