Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear and GitHub

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> the ideas of emailing around patches or of asking for commit access to a  
> repo feel like a retro 2001-themed open-source party.Nobody works that  
> way any more.

Out of curiosity - how else do you get commit access to any repository  
except by asking the repository admin?

As for 'nobody works that way' - for me, GIT and SVN are largely  
commandline experiences, and there SourceForge or GitHub are pretty much  
identical. The rest apart from the protocols looks like a notification  
system - (merge or pull requests really seem to be just messages sent to  
someone to do something - I actually process them via commandline) - and,  
well, email works just fine for me as notification. I check my email  
anyway every day, whereas I don't regularly check all the repository web  
interfaces for the rare event that someone actually needs to reach me via  
that channel - so if you ever need to reach me, writing to the mailing  
list is much faster than any other option. In fact, any merge/pull request  
for a subsystem I maintain without accompanying email is in danger of  
being overlooked.

So let's say there's different ideas and philosophies around what is  
important.

* Thorsten