From: Norman F. <nor...@ge...> - 2011-12-18 18:06:27
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Hello, > just wanted to say that I only had good experiences so far with > github, albeit with rather small codebases compared to Genode. Are > there any other popular medium to large projects using github? one particular project that I am closely following is Milkymist (http://milkymist.org), which is an Open-Source SoC (HDL) + system software + applications software. Last time I met the project's founder Sébastien Bourdeauducq in summer, he was full of praise about Github, especially about the user interface. Actually, the existence and reputation of Github served as a strong argument for convincing me to make the switch from Mercurial (which we used internally during the last 3 years) to Git in the first place. >From what I gathered so far, I see no reason not to go for Github. Compared to Genode's status quo (SVN on Sourceforge), it seems to be vastly superior in each respect. Most importantly, I think that the simplicity of not only forking the code but also collaborating in a loosely coupled and distributed fashion as promoted so well by Github would be a win for our project. Cheers Norman |