From: Leandro L. <lu...@ll...> - 2014-05-29 00:08:21
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Guenter Milde, el 28 de May a las 16:29 me escribiste: > On 2014-05-24, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > > Guenter Milde, el 24 de May a las 17:14 me escribiste: > >> >> VCS/Git: I'm indifferent to a change in VCS. I'd like Docutils to use > >> >> a DVCS, and Git seems to be the leading candidate these days, > >> ... > > >> I would welcome a change to git, however I favour to keep the repository > >> on Sourceforge. > ... > > > Is not only because "everybody is doing it". I think the killer feature > > of GitHub is pull requests (then Bitbucket have it too, I think, but is > > less popular, so if the project is switching anyway I think it makes > > more sense to use GitHub). > > > I don't think SF provides a similar feature, but maybe I'm wrong. > > It seems that pull requests are a feature of Git itself, so this does not > favour any provider. > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Using_Git#Sending_a_pull_request Yes, GitHub just makes it so much simpler, and adds all the integrated reviewing on top of it. You can perfectly go the kernel way and have all that in the mailing list, that's perfectly fine, specially for a project this size (if the project were bigger you'll probably end up needing some help to manage the pull requests, otherwise you have to be **really** good tracking e-mails). > > This is an interesting point, but worse case you can just rejects the > > pull requests, you can still be as picky as you want with pull requests, > > but is much easier for people to submit changes (and for maintainers to > > review them and provide feedback). > > However, having a track record of turning away contributors is worse than > not attracting them in the first place, both for the contributors and our > reputation. I think this is an unfounded fear, BUT... > I am pro Git but would not change the provider. Fair enough. -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- En la calle me crucé con un señor muy correcto, que habitualmente anda en Falcon; iba corriendo con dos valijas en la mano y dijo: "Voy para Miami, tiene algún mensaje o ..." y le dije: "No, no, no..." -- Extra Tato (1983, Triunfo de Alfonsín) |